This Time We Knew : Western Responses to Genocide in Bosnia.

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We didn't know. For half a century, Western politicians and intellectuals have so explained away their inaction in the face of genocide in World War II. In stark contrast, Western observers today face a daily barrage of information and images, from CNN, the Internet, and newspapers about the pa...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cushman, Thomas
Other Authors: Mestrovic, Stjepan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : NYU Press, 1996.
Subjects:
Since 1989
Yugoslav War, 1991-1995.
Genocide > Bosnia and Herzegovina.
World politics > 1989-
Guerre dans l'ex-Yougoslavie, 1991-1995.
Politique mondiale > 1989-
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Violence in Society.
Genocide.
World politics.
Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Thomas Cushman and Stjepan G. Meštrović
  • The complicity of Serbian intellectuals in genocide in the 1990s / Philip J. Cohen
  • Bosnia : the lessons of history? / Brendan Simms
  • No pity for Sarajevo ; The West's Serbianization ; When the West stands in for the dead / Jean Baudrillard
  • Israel and the war in Bosnia / Daniel Kofman
  • The politics of indifference at the United Nations and genocide in Rwanda and Bosnia / Michael N. Barnett
  • The West Side story of the collapse of Yugoslavia and the wars in Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina / Slaven Letica
  • Serbia's war lobby : diaspora groups and Western elites / Brad K. Blitz
  • Moral relativism and equidistance in British attitudes to the war in the former Yugoslavia / Daniele Conversi
  • The former Yugoslavia, the end of the Nuremberg era, and the new barbarism / James J. Sadkovich
  • War and ethnic identity in Eastern Europe : does the post-Yugoslav crisis portend wider chaos? / Liah Greenfeld
  • The anti-genocide movement on American college campuses : a growing response to the Balkan war / Sheri Fink
  • Western responses to the current Balkan war / David Riesman
  • APPENDIX 1: A Definition of Genocide
  • APPENDIX 2: Text of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
  • APPENDIX 3: Indictments by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.

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