Looks at the background and rise to power of Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic, whose difficult relationship with NATO, inability to control his own military, and the isolation of Yugoslavia from the rest of the world as an “international pariah state” during his leadership from 1987 led to his indictment by The Hague for war crimes in 1999. Milosevic contributed to a state of continuous unrest in Yugoslavia and the Balkans, which led to his eventual downfall.
