Worlds apart : Bosnian lessons for global security / Swanee Hunt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hunt, Swanee.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yugoslav War, 1991-1995--Campaigns--Bosnia and Hercegovina--Srebrenica.

Yugoslav War, 1991-1995.

International relations.

Srebrenica Massacre, Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1995.

United States--Foreign relations--2001-2009.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (298 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Offers perspectives on how we may try to attain global security, using her knowledge of the recent war in Bosnia as a case study and arguing that decisions by both participants and policy makers should not be made from just one vantage point.

Contents:

Inside : "Esteemed Mr. Carrington"

Outside : a convenient euphemism

Inside : angels and animals

Outside : Carter and conscience

Inside : "If I left, everyone would flee"

Outside : none of our business

Inside : Silajdžić

Outside : unintended consequences

Inside : the bread factory

Outside : elegant tables

Inside : the unspeakable

Outside : the politics of rape

Inside : an unlikely soldier

Outside : happy Fourth of July

Inside : women on the side

Outside : contact sport

Inside : an artificial war

Outside : clashes

Inside : crossing the fault line

Outside : "The truth about Goražde"

Inside : loyal

Outside : Pentagon sympathies

Inside : family friends

Outside : extremists

Inside : family ties

Outside : federation

Inside : school days

Outside : forces and counterforces

Inside : blood

Outside : trade-offs

Inside : grim lullaby

Outside : security and cooperation

Inside : Sarajevo Cinderella

Outside : failure at Srebrenica

Inside : Magbula's parrot

Outside : the accident

Inside : boys pretending

Outside : bombs and bluffs

Inside : side by side

Outside: decisions at Dayton

Inside : morning has broken

Outside : waiting for Christmas

Inside : Serb exodus

Outside : refugees in Austria

Inside : refugees at the residence

Outside : diplobabble

Inside : displaced

Outside : sowing and reaping

Inside : Banja Luka bitterness

Outside : war criminals

Inside : uncatchable

Outside : evenhanded

Inside : no justice in Srebrenica

Outside : the tribunal

Inside : waiting for the truth

Outside : intelligence and political will

Inside : professor, perpetrator, president

Outside : the fourth warring party

Inside : city signs

Outside : out of step

Inside : by a thread

Outside : missing

Inside : surviving the peace

Outside : press tour

Inside : organized for action

Outside : Lyons

Inside : "What's an NGO"?

Outside : skewed

Inside : a league of their own

Outside : "With all due respect"

Inside : Beethoven's Fifth

Outside : "Neither free nor fair"

Inside : Sarajevo red

Outside : re-leaf

Inside : watermelons

Outside Arizona

Inside : three hundred gold coins

Outside : mistrust in Mostar

Inside : new bridges

Outside : Air Force One

Bridging : six lessons: Test truisms; question stereotypes; find out-of-power allies; appreciate domestic dynamics; find fault; embrace responsibility.

Notes:

Description based on print version record

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

ISBN:

9786613273307

9781283273305

1283273306

9780822394099

082239409X

OCLC:

754634232

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822394099