Inspirational partisan leader; doctrinaire communist and yet a thorn in Moscow's side; leading light in the Non Aligned Movement. The break-up of Yugoslavia, the country Tito, the Croat turned Yugoslav had created was inevitable after his death in 1980.

Neil Barnett has covered the Balkan region for The Economist and other major publications and newspapers. He also worked in the Middle East and reported extensively on the second Iraq War.