Mapping European security after Kosovo / edited by Peter van Ham and Sergei Medvedev.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ham, Peter van, 1963-

Medvedev, Sergeĭ.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National security--Europe.

National security.

Europe.

Kosovo (Republic)--History--Civil War, 1998.

Kosovo (Republic).

History.

Nationalism--Europe.

Nationalism.

Kosovo (Republic)--Ethnic relations.

Ethnic relations.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Europe--Relations.

Kosovo (Serbia)--History--Civil War, 1998-.

Local Subjects:

Europe--Relations.

Kosovo (Serbia)--History--Civil War, 1998-.

Physical Description:

x, 197 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2002.

Summary:

This book provides new and stimulating perspectives on how Kosovo has shaped the new Europe. It breaks down traditional assumptions in the field of security studies by sidelining the theoretical worldview that underlies mainstream strategic thinking on recent events in Kosovo. The contributors challenge the epistemological definition of the Kosovo conflict, arguing that we should not only be concerned with the 'Kosovo out there', but also with the debate about what counts as security, and how our definition of security is shaped by various power and knowledge interests in Kosovo.

Contents:

Preface: Kosovo and the outlines of Europe's new order / Sergei Medvedev and Peter van Ham

Kosovo: a European fin de siècle / Sergei Medvedev

Simulating European security: Kosovo and the Balkanisation-integration nexus / Peter van Ham

Kosovo and the end of war / Pertti Joenniemi

Kosovo and the end of the legitimate warring state / Iver B. Neumann

Kosovo and the end of the United Nations? / Heikki Patomäki

Kosov@ and the politics of representation / Maja Zehfuss

"vvv.nato.int.": virtuousness, virtuality and virtuosity in NATO's representation of the Kosovo campaign / Andreas Behnke

Of models and monsters: language games in the Kosovo war / Mika Aaltola

"War is never civilised": civilisation, civil society and the Kosovo war / Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen

Chechnya and Kosovo: reflections in a distorting mirror / Christoph Zürcher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0719062403

OCLC:

49902988