Harvard Government 20 Week 9 Handout 1

Government 20: Week 9, Lecture 1: Ethnic Conflict in Yugoslavia I. Yugoslavia’s Cultural Diversity II. Historical Background A. Slavic Origins B. The Middle Ages: Statehood and absorption into (Ottoman/Austria-Hungary) empires C. 19th century statehood and the formation of Yugoslavia D. The Interwar Period and World War II a. A Serb-Dominated Yugoslavia (1919-1941) b. The Ustashi regime in Croatia and the mass killing of Serbs (1941-45) E. The Communist Period: federalism, ethnic peace, and relative prosperity III. The Breakup of Yugoslavia A. The Post-Tito Crisis and the Rise of Serb Nationalism 1. Economic crisis and the emergence of anti-communist opposition 2. Milosevic’s 1987 speech in Kosovo: ethnic entrepreneurship? 3. The mobilization of mass support, 1987-89 B. The Rise of Nationalism in Slovenia and Croatia 1. Ethnic minorities, insecurity, and the formation of militias 2. The move to independence and the collapse of the Yugoslav state C. The descent into civil war in Croatia D. Ethnic cleansing and genocide in Bosnia, 1992-95 E. Milosevic’s about face, the Dayton Accords, and the end of the war in Bosnia F. The War in Kosovo Key Terms The Ottoman Empire The Battle of Kosovo (1389)/King Lazar The Balkan Wars (1912-13) The Ustashi state in Croatia (1941-45) Chetniks The Partisans Josip Broz Tito Slobodan Milosevic Milan Kucan (Slovenia) Franjo Tudjman (Croatia) Alija Izetbegovic (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Radovan Karadzic and the Serb Republic in Bosnia Krajina Ethnic cleansing The Dayton Accords Ibrahim Rugova (Kosovo) The Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA)