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This is an account of the war in the Balkans during the 1990s. As the only member of NATO and the European Union to support Slobodan Milosevic's regime in the conflict following the breakup of Yugoslavia, Greece broke ranks with its western allies, frustrating their efforts to impose sanctions against Serbia. The work looks at Greek-Serbian relations and tackles the difficult question of how the Greek people could ignore Serbian aggression and war crimes. Journalistic accounts are combined with anecdotes and personal interviews to show a pattern of Greek support for Milosevic and Radovan Karadzic that implicates Greek politicians from all parties, as well as the Greek Orthodox Church, the Greek media, and ultimately the Greek people themselves. The evidence and conclusions presented aim to question the opinion that a new liberal order replaced the ideological standoff of the Cold War, but it will not surprise those who suspected that older allegiances have now claimed loyaties of many of the world's peoples.

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9781585441839

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...an impressive book combining personal observation, exhaustive investigation, humanitarian concerns, and political analysis... essential reading for all those Europeans, Americans, and Greeks who are concerned with Greece's role in the Balkans, NATO, the European Union, and the world. - Samuel Huntington

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TAKIS MICHAS lives in Athens, where he works for the Greek daily Eleftherotypia. He is the author of two previous books and has contributed articles to the Wall Street Journal and the New Republic.

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