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In this chapter I aim to use this model of legitimacy to re-examine the history of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (the SFRY) from its founding in 1945 to the onset of a series of ultimately fatal crises between 1979 and 1981. Chapter 4 will take the story on to the collapse of Yugoslavia, looking at the 1980s and Yugoslavia’s death throes in 1990–1991.
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James Gow is explicit on this point. James Gow, Legitimacy and the Military: the Yugoslav Crisis ( London: Pinter, 1991 ).
This list is not drawn from any particular source, being a summary of a range of sources. However, it is not dissimilar to that of George Schöpflin, ‘Political Decay in One-Party Systems in Eastern Europe: Yugoslav Patterns’, in Yugoslavia in the 1980s, Pedro Ramet (ed.) ( Boulder: Westview, 1985 ).
This is certainly the view taken by Nora Beloff’s highly partial book, Tito’s Flawed Legacy: Yugoslavia and the West, 1939–84 ( London: Victor Gollancz, 1985 ), 57–128.
See also Stevan K. Pavlowitch, The Improbable Survivor: Yugoslavia and Its Problems, 1918–1988 ( London: C. Hurst and Co., 1988 ), 10–15.
Phyllis Auty, Tito: a Biography ( London: Longman, 1970 ), 179–196.
Wayne Vucinich, ‘The Formation of Yugoslavia’, in The Creation of Yugoslavia, 1914–1918, Dmitrije Djordjevic (ed.) (Santa Barbara, California: Clio Press, 1980), 201. Also Pavlowitch, The Improbable Survivor, 1.
Robert H. Jackson, Quasi-states: Sovereignty, International Relations and the Third World ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990 ), 50–3.
Martin Wight, Systems of States ( Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1977 ), 153.
For Yugoslav policy towards other Balkan states in the 1945–48 period see Duncan Wilson, Tito’s Yugoslavia ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979 ), 33–6.
Dennison Rusinow, The Yugoslav Experiment, 1948–1974 (London: C. Hurst and Co, 1977), 43 for the threat of a Soviet invasion.
Rusinow quotes President Truman on this. ibid., 44–5. Also John Berryman, ‘The Soviet Union and Yugoslavia’s Defence and Foreign Policy’, in Yugoslavia’s Security Dilemmas: Armed Force, National Defence and Foreign Policy, Marko Milivojevic, et al. (eds) ( Oxford: Berg, 1988 ), 197.
Summary of the kind of questions asked by states considering recognition of a state and with whom to exchange diplomatic emissaries. See Thomas M. Franck, The Power of Legitimacy Among Nations ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990 ), 117.
Pedro Ramet, Nationalism and Federalism in Yugoslavia, 1963–1983 (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1984), 41 emphasizes the determination of the LCY and the Yugoslav military to keep the country together.
Harold Lydall, Yugoslavia in Crisis ( Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989 ), 40.
Also Bruce MacFarlane, Yugoslavia: Politics, Economics and Society ( London: Pinter Publishers, 1988 ), 114.
Max Weber, ‘Legitimacy, Politics and the State’, in Legitimacy and the State, William Connolly (ed.) ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984 ).
Paul Lendvai, ‘Yugoslavia Without Yugoslays: the Roots of the Crisis,’ International Affairs 67 (1991): 254.
Elie Kedourie, Nationalism, rev. 3rd edn. ( London: Hutchinson, 1985 ), 9.
A brief summary can be found in MacFarlane, Yugoslavia, 3–7. See also Noel Malcolm, Bosnia: a Short History ( London: Macmillan, 1994 ).
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Williams, J. (1998). Legitimacy and Yugoslavia, 1945–1980. In: Legitimacy in International Relations and the Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26260-1_3
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