URDERSTANDING SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC:
BETWEEN THE COLD WAR AND IRAQ

Slobodan Milosevic, the former president of Serbia and Yugoslavia found dead in his cell in The Hague on 11 March 2006, was an unscrupulous opportunist whose brazen defiance of western democratic states and the United Nations in the 1990s ended in only a narrow defeat. He showed how precarious and shallow was the peace following the long cold war, even in the heart of Europe. He recognised the weakness of the democratic world, its complacency and even moral abdication in the face of the flagrant manipulation of nationalism, and its unwillingness to take risks to defend the Bosnian state and its largest group, the Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) from massacre and ethnic cleansing.

The Bosniaks' abandonment in turn envenomed Islamist radicals, who were driven (as their testimonies, and studies like that of Evan Kohlmann, confirm) to take revenge by their attacks in the United States on 9/11. AQ.

Para quem está interessado por outros assuntos que não SÓ os relativos ao rectângulo, aconselha-se vivamente a leitura deste artigo, escrito por Tom Gallagher, professor na Universidade de Bradford, com a cadeira "Estudos da Europa de Leste".

Para todos os outros, e desde já, um bom resto de dia.

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