Amazon.com description: Product Description: Arguing that cultural and religious values underpin political behaviour, Sabrina Ramet traces the steady deterioration of Yugoslavia's social and political fabric over the past decade. She explores the unfolding political debates from 1980 to 1986, the gathering crisis triggered by the ascent of Slobodan Milosevic to power in Serbia, and the dramatic collapse of the existing political order beginning in 1989. At this point, she contends, no aspect of Yugoslav life, from the media to gender relations to rock music, has escaped the strife-ridden nationality debate or the country's steady political decay.