'Robert Donia, one of our most esteemed experts on the history of Yugoslavia, has written a remarkably detailed and lively biography of Radovan Karadžić, former President of the Bosnian Serb Republic and the man most responsible for the Srebrenica genocide. Richard Ashby Wilson - University of Connecticut and author of Writing History in International Criminal Trials ![]() In charting the rise and fall of Karadžić, Donia recounts an eternal story about the populist demagogue who sweeps to power through his tremendous charisma and intellectual ability and is then undone by his own megalomania and self-inflicted injuries. This book is about much more than Radovan Karadžić: it is about the powder-keg of Balkans nationalism, the particular historical moment after the end of the Cold War, and the ineffectiveness of international diplomacy. ![]() Donia does what any excellent biography of a political figure ought to do, and that is to tell a larger story through the prism of one key actor. ![]() 'Radovan Karadžić’s prominence as the architect of a bitter war that took over one hundred thousand lives, most of them civilians, and Karadžić’s mercurial and flamboyant personality, make him a compelling subject of a biography.
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