Kosta Nikolić’s Book Krajina (1991–1995). An Extended Review

Savković Mirko ()
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Savković Mirko: Department of East and Southeast European History, 9183 Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich , Munchen, Germany

Comparative Southeast European Studies, 2024, vol. 72, issue 4, 493-506

Abstract: The essay comments on Kosta Nikolić’s voluminous study Krajina 1991–1995, jointly published in November 2023 by the Serb National Council in Croatia and the Fraktura publishing house. Nikolić delves into the ideologically charged story of the failed separatist proto-state of the Republic of Serbian Krajina which existed on the territory of Croatia in the first half of the 1990s. The book was written by a Belgrade-based historian and published by two Croatian publishers, one of which is the national coordinating body of the Serbs in Croatia and the other the country’s leading progressive publisher. This combination unsurprisingly sparked public interest and debate, which the author covers in this review essay, along with an assessment of the book as such. While largely forgotten beyond Croatia and Yugoslavia’s other successor states, the book’s topic is of relevance and provides salient lessons for contemporary separatist and territorial conflicts globally.

Keywords: Croatia; Republic of Serbian Krajina; unrecognised states; international mediation; armed conflict (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1515/soeu-2024-0050

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