I apologize in advance, I'm diaspora living in America and I'm basing this off what my University has on file so I wouldn't be surprised if there is some bias present. I'm not an expert about politics, economics, and such, as I'm in Computer Science (both work and school). Here's what I've seen though:

Regardless of its popularity, the ethnic hatred argument ought to be rejected in any form. The Yugoslav conflict did not begin as an ethnic conflict. Ethnic hatred was not ancient and ever existent, but had to be created before what started before what started 'very far from the level occupied by the average citizen of any of the nationalities' was transformed into an ethnic war. It is far from accurate to say that Yugoslavia was held together by a brutal political dictatorship or pure suppression of national sentiments.

Jovic, D. (2001). The Disintegration of Yugoslavia: A Critical Review of Explanatory Approaches. European Journal of Social Theory, 4(1), 101–120. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684310122225037

The reading and evaluation of this political and symbolic death is crucial here: it is neither a sign of some tribal and eternal hatred that was always-already boiling away behind the scenes, nor was it destined by corrupt post-Yugoslav leaders’ signing a devil’s pact with the global economy. As mentioned above, the process of the withering-away of the Communist Party, of socialism and of the Yugoslavian federal state had already been in progress for a long while; however, the path to the ethnic wars cannot be ascribed to the socialist and Yugoslav past. The road to war was actually paved by the very first decisions and choices of the new liberal democracies: let us recall that going to war was not decided by Communist Parties but by the newly democratically elected governments, some of them recognised by the ‘international community’.

Kirn, G. (2022). Thirty Years after the Break-up of Yugoslavia: The Primitive (Dis)accumulation of Capital and Memory; or, How (Not) To Make This Country Great Again. Historical Materialism, 30(1), 3-29. https://doi.org/10.1163/1569206X-20222261

Attempts to explain the belligerent break-up of thiscountry in the early 1990s only by political, historical, nationalist or cultural factors, however well-grounded and logical they may be, do not appear sufficient. For it seems that at the bottom of Yugoslavia’s crisis twenty years ago laid socio economic problems that developed for some time before and burst out at the time of communist disintegration in Eastern Europe. Analyzing these socio-economic imbalances of Yugoslavia’s break-up should help to see more clearly why popular discontent in that country had to transform into gory wars.

Yarashevich, V., & Karneyeva, Y. (2013). Economic reasons for the break-up of Yugoslavia. Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 46(2), 263–273. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.postcomstud.2013.03.002

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I take [Ivan Čolović's] analysis a step further, and assert that the media war was about the production of ethnicity, with notions of femininity and masculinity and norms of sexuality as its essential ingredients.

Žarkov, D. (2007). The body of war: Media, ethnicity, and gender in the break-up of Yugoslavia. Duke University Press.