From Yugoslavia to the western Balkans [electronic resource] : studies of a European disunion, 1991-2011 / by Robert M. Hayden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hayden, Robert M.

Series:

Balkan Studies Library 7.

Balkan studies library ; vol. 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnic conflict--Former Yugoslav republics.

Ethnic conflict.

Genocide--Yugoslavia.

Genocide.

Nationalism--Former Yugoslav republics.

Nationalism.

Nationalism--Yugoslavia.

Yugoslav War, 1991-1995.

Bosnia and Herzegovina--Politics and government.

Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Former Yugoslav republics--Ethnic relations.

Former Yugoslav republics.

Former Yugoslav republics--Politics and government.

Yugoslavia--Ethnic relations.

Yugoslavia.

Yugoslavia--Politics and government--1992-2003.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (409 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book brings together important original contributions to scholarly and political/policy debates over the disintegration of Yugoslavia, and especially the war in Bosnia. The analyses are grounded on empirically-based arguments about social and political dynamics, resonate with much larger/enduring issues of social science inquiry, and consistently challenge commonly-held beliefs about the Balkans that are based more on ignorance, misunderstanding, or outright prejudice, than on intimate knowledge of the region, its peoples, and their histories. When first published, some of these essays represented sharply distinctive analyses which have since then become “common wisdom.” Hayden’s arguments about how this multinational European federation collapsed following a severe economic crisis are disturbingly relevant to analyzing the crisis of the European Union twenty years later.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Robert M. Hayden

1. The Use of National Stereotypes in the Wars in Yugoslavia / Robert M. Hayden

2. Recounting the Dead: The Rediscovery and Redefinition of Wartime Massacres in Late- and Post-Communist Yugoslavia / Robert M. Hayden

3. The Partition of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1990–93 / Robert M. Hayden

4. Muslims as “Others” in Serbian and Croatian Politics / Robert M. Hayden

5. Imagined Communities and Real Victims: Self-Determination and Ethnic Cleansing in Yugoslavia / Robert M. Hayden

6. Schindler’s Fate: Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing and Population Transfers / Robert M. Hayden

7. Mass Killings and Images of Genocide in Bosnia, 1941–45 and 1992–95 / Robert M. Hayden

8. Mass Rape and Rape Avoidance in Ethno-National Conflicts: Sexual Violence in Liminalized States / Robert M. Hayden

9. Human Rights Activists and the Civil War in Yugoslavia: The Questionable Morality of Liberal Absolutism / Robert M. Hayden

10. Humanrightsism: From Moral Critique of Violence to Crusade for Moral Violence / Robert M. Hayden

11. “Genocide Denial” Laws as Secular Heresy: A Critical Analysis with Reference to Bosnia / Robert M. Hayden

12. What’s Reconciliation Got to Do With It? The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) as Antiwar Profitee / Robert M. Hayden

13. “Democracy” Without a Demos? The Bosnian Constitutional Experiment / Robert M. Hayden

14. The Proposed 2009 Amendments on the Bosnian Constitution and the Continuing Reinvention of the Square Wheel / Robert M. Hayden

15. Moral Vision and Impaired Insight: Or the Imagining of Other Peoples’ Communities in Bosnia / Robert M. Hayden

16. From EUphoria to EU-goslavia / Robert M. Hayden

Index / Robert M. Hayden.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-85427-9

90-04-24191-4

OCLC:

815755440

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004241916 DOI