Slobodan milosevic and the destruction of yugoslavia (Duke University Press)

Louis Sell offers an insider's account of the life and times of Slobodan Milosevic, filling a gap in the literature on the Yugoslav conflicts żeby covering both the domestic Yugoslav side of the collapse and the international interventions in the ensuing Balkan wars. Louis Sell is a retired Foreign Service Officer who served twenty-eight years with the U.S. Department of State. He spent eight years in the former Yugoslavia with both the Department of State and non-governmental organizations. From 1995-1996 he served as Political Deputy to the first High Representative for Bosnian Peace Implementation. In that capacity, Sell attended the Dayton Peace Conference and participated in the first year of implementation of the Dayton accords. In 2000, he served as Kosovo Director of the International Crisis Group. He currently teaches at the University of Maine at Farmington.