Western intervention in the Balkans : the strategic use of emotion in conflict / Roger D. Petersen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Petersen, Roger Dale, 1959-

Series:

Cambridge studies in comparative politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Psychological aspects.

Armed Forces.

Balkan Peninsula--History--1989-.

Balkan Peninsula.

History.

Balkan Peninsula--Politics and government--1989-.

Politics and government.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization--Armed Forces--Balkan Peninsula.

Kosovo War, 1998-1999--Participation, Foreign.

Kosovo War, 1998-1999.

Kosovo War, 1998-1999--Psychological aspects.

Operation Allied Force, 1999--Psychological aspects.

Operation Allied Force, 1999.

Physical Description:

xii, 333 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Summary:

Examines the strategic use of emotion in the conflicts and interventions occurring in the Western Balkans over a twenty-year period.

Contents:

Part 1 Background and Theory

1 Western Intervention in the Balkans: The Strategic Use of Emotion in Ethnic Conflict 3

2 Emotions as Resources 23

3 The Strategic Use of Emotions, I: The Distribution of Emotions 52

4 Intervention Games 64

5 The Strategic Use of Emotions, II: Developing Strategies; Examples from Non-Balkan Cases 80

6 The Strategic Use of Emotions, III: Generating Hypotheses 97

Part 2 Cases and Tests

7 Background to Western Intervention in the Balkans 107

8 The Case of the Roma in Kosovo 130

9 Background to Kosovo 137

10 Waiting for the West 147

11 Kosovo Intervention Games, I 164

12 Kosovo Intervention Games, II 184

13 Kosovo Conclusions 193

14 South Serbia 203

15 Macedonia 222

16 Bosnia 243

17 Montenegro 269

18 Conclusion 290.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107010666

1107010667

9780521281263

0521281261

OCLC:

704908475