The South Slav Conflict: History, Religion, Ethnicity, and Nationalism

ISBN-13: 9780815321170 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 438 str.

Raju G. C. Thomas; H. Richard Friman

Opis

No better subject could launch a series on contemporary European politics than the Balkanization of the Balkans. North American scholars, many originally from the region, explain how the conflicts that have blossomed in Yugoslavia since World War I germinated deep in the histories, religions, ethnic

Spis treści

Acknowledgments, Introduction, PART I: HISTORY, RELIGION, ETHNICITY, AND NATIONALISM, 1. History, Religion, and National Identity, 2. The Future of History in the Balkans, 3. Echoes of Another Christendom, 4. Contemporary Roman Catholic-Muslim Relations, 5. Hellenism and the Greek-Macedonian Affair, 6. Balkan Myths and Bosnian Massacres, 7. Failure and Fantasy in the Yugoslav Successor States, 8. Regional Economic Nationalism in the Former Yugoslavia, PART II: WAR, THE GREAT POWERS, AND INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, 9. Nations, States, and War, 10. Yugoslavia and the Internationalization of the Balkan Conflict, 11. U.S. Policy Towards Yugoslavia: From Differentiation to Disintegration, 12. Debating Operation Quagmire Storm: U.S. Crisis Management in Bosnia, 13. The United States, International Organizations, and the Yugoslav Crisis, 14. Germany and the Breakup of Yugoslavia, 15. War Crimes in the Balkans: Media Manipulation, Historical Amnesia, and Subjective Morality, 16. Balkan Realities and the Constitution of a Polyethnic State, 17. The Tragedy in Yugoslavia Could Have Been Averted, Select Bibliography, Contributors, Maps, Index

O autorze

Raju G.C. Thomas; H. Richard Friman