De Zhong Gao 
Serbian Irredentism in Croatia [PDF ebook] 

Essay from the year 2013 in the subject History of Europe – European Postwar Period, grade: A, Mc Gill University, course: Independant Research, language: English, abstract: The following essay argues how the ethnic bargaining model and theory of fear provide a better understanding of ethnic irredentism and violence in Yugoslavia. This essay analyzes how institutional arrangements of the republics in the former Yugoslavia affected the collapse of the Yugoslav federation, and demonstrates how Jenne’s ethnic bargaining model and Lake and Rothchild’s theory of fear account for the origins of the Serbian-Croatian conflict.