Islam and Bosnia : conflict resolution and foreign policy in multi-ethnic states / edited by Maya Shatzmiller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shatzmiller, Maya.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Islam.

Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Bosnia and Herzegovina--Ethnic relations.

Ethnic relations.

Yugoslav War, 1991-1995--Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Yugoslav War, 1991-1995.

Conflict management--Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Conflict management.

Bosnia and Herzegovina--History.

History.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Montréal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2002]

Summary:

Islam and Bosnia re-examines the conflict of the 1990s from the perspective of international relations, conflict resolution, and history as well as psychology, anthropology, and cultural studies. Rejecting the primordialist, or "ancient hatreds, " interpretation as the root of the conflict, the authors detail how a complex cultural transformation led to the erosion of what had been the common inclusionist base of a multi-ethnic state and brought about a new exclusionist nationalism. By pulling together the individual elements of culture, society, and foreign policy and analysing their interaction, Islam and Bosnia demonstrates how the secular romantic nationalism of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries centred on history, language, and landscape was overthrown in favour of one that highlighted religion, race, and territory.

Contents:

The various faiths in the history of Bosnia: middle ages to the present / John V.A. Fine

Islam and the quest for identity in post-communist Bosnia Herzegovina / Tone Bringa

Medieval cemeteries as sites of memory: the poetry of Mak Dizdar / Amila Bururović

The construction of Islam in Serbian religious mythology and its consequence / Michael A. Sills

Bosnia-Herzegovina : chosen trauma and its transgenerational transmission / Vamik D. Volkan

From the ashes: the past and future of Bosnia' s cultural heritage / András Riedlmayer

Turning points: key decisions in making peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia / Peter W. Galbraith

The Dayoton Accord elections in Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1996 / John M. Reid

No fire in a vacuum: distraction, disinterest, distortion, and disunity in formulating western policy towards the former Yugoslavia / Graham N. Green

Bosnia: some policy dilemmas / Donald W. Smith

Peacekeeping with no peace ito keep: the failure of Canadian foreign policy in Bosia / Nader Hashemi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references: pages [213]-220.

ISBN:

0773523464

0773524134

OCLC:

48532389