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

by Raju G.C Thomas (Editor)

Overview

First Published in 1996. What series on Contemporary Issues in European Politics could leave out the conflict in the former Yugoslavia? The Balkan tragedy has dominated the reporting of European news more consistently than any other single development since the end of the Cold War. In proportion to its implications for peace and stability in Europe, the violent disintegration of the Yugoslav has also produced a strong body of scholarly investigations into the origins of its continuing abominations. The South Slav Conflict is unique among these by virtue of its thoroughly interdisciplinary approach to the causes and consequences of the war. The book’s great strength begins with its forthright assertion that no serious attempt to explain the current cycle of genocide and revenge among Serbs, Croats, and Bosnians can avoid the inherent complexity of the factors that transformed Yugoslavia from one of the most pluralist of European communist states into a theater of human misery.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138982611
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/26/2016
Series:	Contemporary Issues in European Politics
Pages:	438
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Raju G.C. Thomas; H. Richard Friman

Table of Contents

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