The Spanish-American War, launched 100 years ago, set the US on the path to empire. More lastingly, the vision and policies of those who steered the US "foreshadowed the often awesome ambiguities of ...America's waxing and waning global involvements during the whole of the 20th century."
In this special Comments section, the U.S. ambassador to Yugoslavia from 1989 to 1992 has written a memoir drawn from his personal diaries that provides a gripping firsthand account of Yugoslavia's ...slide into civil war. The author evaluates the breakup of Yugoslavia as a classic example of nationalism from the top down -- a manipulated, brutal nationalism in a region where peace has historically prevailed and ethnically mixed marriages comprise a quarter of the population. In one of several vivid portraits of politicians, Zimmermann shows how Serb leader Slobodan Milošević, who wanted only "a unity that Serbia could dominate," became the main wrecker of Yugoslavia.
Addresses before the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe followup meetings, Vienna, Jan. 27 and Feb. 20, 1987. Includes the issues of broadcast jamming and freedom to travel and emigrate.
Zimmermann, the last US ambassador to Belgrade, remembers Slobodan Milosevic as the coldest person he ever met. His coldness has made it easy for him to order or condone the mass killings of ...Albanians.
