's significance now? What will it be after Tito? Conventional answers usually point to the country's anomalous international position-neither Eastern nor West- ern, neither capitalist nor (in the Soviet sense) communist, neither neutral nor satellite. But these are descriptive cliches, not answers.
A real analysis of Yugoslavia's importance must focus on more tangible factors: on its geographical position, its volatile ethnic situation, its much-touted internal system of "self- management,"...