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• W4379420536 abstract "REVIEWS 573 the parts of China, Korea and Southeast Asia which Japan occupied during her imperial expansionary trajectory.There is some merit in this distinction, since Stalin'sactions in occupying the Kurils at the very end (and even after) the war were clearly a violation of the Russo-Japanese Neutrality Treaty of 13 April I94I. This position, however, ignoresthe importantsecurityvalue of the islands as a gateway to the Sea of Okhotsk, where the ballistic missile submarines of the Russian Pacific Fleet are deployed. Japan's sudden economic vulnerability,her enhanced securitylinkages to the USA and her participation in Washington's national and theatre missile defence schemes have undoubtedly diminished her capacity for successful dialogue with the Russians.This facthas surelyincreasedthe desirabilityof Russiaas a 'strategic partner'for China in the evolving securitymechanismsin Asia Pacific.Fewof these vital considerations are given adequate attention by the contributors. Most of them look upon Russia's inclusion in the economic and security machinery of the region as useful, but they don't seem to take Russia very seriously, arguing somewhat short-sightedly,that Moscow has little to offer economically or strategicallytoward the creation of such machinery for the foreseeablefuture. The essayswere writtenbefore the riseof V. V. Putinasfirst,RussianPrime Minister,and subsequentlyPresident.Indeed, most of the commentaryon the Russian economy ends in I997, when prospects seemed fairly good; that is, before the collapse of August I998 and the subsequent turnaroundin 2000. Much of the detailed analysis is, thus, at best dated, and at worst naively fixatedon unreliableofficialstatistics.Fortunately,the two Russiancommentatorsare able to set the recordstraighton a numberof these issuesand to give an alternativeperspective:for example, that the MiG-29 which Malaysia has bought and which the Malaysian contributor, K. S. Nathan, denigrates, is actuallya very good aircraft,which it certainlyis. Like the curate's egg, the book is good in parts. It offers some interesting perspectiveson how Asian scholarsview the region's securityissues and who reallycounts. Perhapsthe most universallyheldperceptionisof the continuing relevance and desirabilityof a substantialAmerican presence in the region. That is evidently something upon which Russians, Chinese, Koreans, Japanese, Filipinosand even Malaysiansalltend to agree, howevermuch they may vocally fulminateagainstWesterninterference.Any conceivable security architecturein the region seems to requireit. Transformation of Communist SystemsProject ROBERT F. MILLER Research School ofPacific andAsianStudies TheAustralian NationalUniversity Thomas, Robert. SerbiaUnderMilosevic.Politics in the i99os. Hurst and Company, London, I999. V+ 443 pp. Notes. Index. f 35.00; f I4.95. ONE of the firstbooks specificallydevoted to Serbian politics during the last decade, Robert Thomas' detailed overview is extremely useful to scholars interested in the nature and the longevity of the Milosevic regime. It also providesa wealth of informationon how the warsof Yugoslavsuccessionand 574 SEER, 79, 3, 2001 international peace efforts affected Serbia's domestic political scene and generates much insight into the difficulties of forging a united opposition againstthe regime in such circumstances. After four short chaptersdevoted to Serbian history, the economy, society and dissent during the Tito period and Milosevics consolidation of power in the late I 98os, the restof the book chronologicallycoversthe years stretching from Serbia'sfirstmultipartyelection in I990 to the outbreakof violence in Kosovo in spring I998. Thomas arguesthat Serbia'sdemocraticdevelopment was hampered by its longstanding ethnic, regional, historical and social divisions,which weakened state institutionsand the opposition to the regime, while strengtheningMilosevic's 'supra-political'and 'iconic' statusamong the Serbianelectorate(p. 9). He correctlynotes thatthe 'happeningofthepeople', Serbia's equivalent of the I989 revolutions in East Central Europe, was a phenomenon not only organized from above, but also the expression of Milosevic's genuine popularity as the defender of the Kosovo Serbs and national unity at the time of Yugoslavia'scollapse. In addition, he notes that the fragmentation of the political sphere took place at the same time as the 'Milo?evidrevolution' and not after the overturn of the old order, which contributedto the consolidationratherthan the demise of the Serbianregime. The book traces the progressive decline of Milosevic's popularity in the course of the I99OS and the means used to maintain his hold on power, from his 'cadrespolicy' establishingcontrolover Serbia'seconomy, institutionsand the Yugoslav army, to his various alliances with other political parties and influentialindividuals.Relying primarilyon the Serbianpress,Thomas shows the concurrentdisarrayof Serbia'smain opposition..." @default.
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• W4379420536 title "Serbia under Milošević. Politics in the 1990s by Robert s> Thomas (review)" @default.
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