Branislav Radeljic offers a fresh analysis of the role of the European Community in the disintegration of the Yugoslav state. He explores the economic, political and social aspects that eroded the relationship between the two parties. By looking at the EC’s relations with Yugoslavia from the late 1960s, under the presidency of Josip Broz Tito, through to the collapse of the Yugoslav federation in 1992 after the rise of Slobodan Milošević and the beginning of the Yugoslav Wars, starting in 1991, professor Radeljic places emphasis on the role of non-state actors and their capacity to contribute and affect policy-making processes at EC level. Accordingly, he shows how the lack of direction and inadequate political mechanisms within the EC enabled these actors to take centre stage, and how EC paralysis precipitated bloody conflict in the Balkans.