A Review of One Chapter: An Example of Irresponsible Self-Indulgence
A Review of One Chapter: An Example of Irresponsible Self-Indulgence
Author(s): Sabrina Petra RametSubject(s): Political history, Government/Political systems, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Post-Communist Transformation, Wars in Jugoslavia
Published by: SAGE Publications Ltd
Keywords: Yugoslavia; political history; civil wars; Bosnia; Kosovo; the breakup of Yugoslavia; response to a review;
Summary/Abstract: Robert M. Hayden has written a very strange book review. In my book, Thinking about Yugoslavia, I discuss 131 books, among other things noting differences in factual accounts, interpretations, and moral and empirical frameworks. In his review of my book, Professor Hayden refers to only 7 of the books I discuss and relies on outright falsifications of my views to advance his argument. In fact, nowhere in his review does he demonstrate that any of the works I praise in my book do in fact “violate the principles of social science inquiry,” as he alleges. [...]
Journal: East European Politics and Societies
- Issue Year: 21/2007
- Issue No: 01
- Page Range: 194-203
- Page Count: 10
- Language: English
- Content File-PDF