The myth of ethnic war : Serbia and Croatia in the 1990s /
The myth of ethnic war :: Serbia and Croatia in the 1990s /

"The wars in Bosnia-Herzegovina and in neighboring Croatia and Kosovo grabbed the attention of the western world not only because of their ferocity and their geographic location, but also because of their timing. This violence erupted at the exact moment when the cold war confrontation was draw...

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1. Verfasser: Gagnon, V. P. (Valère Philip)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2004.
Schlagworte:
1991-1995
Geschichte 1990-2000.
Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 > Causes.
Guerre dans l'ex-Yougoslavie, 1991-1995 > Causes.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > General.
HISTORY > Europe > General.
War > Causes
Jugoslawienkriege
Politische Elite
Machtkampf
Ethnische Identität
Mythos
Yugoslavia.
Wars.
Ethnic conflicts.
Croatia.
Serbia.
History
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Zusammenfassung:"The wars in Bosnia-Herzegovina and in neighboring Croatia and Kosovo grabbed the attention of the western world not only because of their ferocity and their geographic location, but also because of their timing. This violence erupted at the exact moment when the cold war confrontation was drawing to a close, when westerners were claiming their liberal values as triumphant, in a country that had only a few years earlier been seen as very well placed to join the west. In trying to account for this outburst, most western journalists, academics, and policymakers have resorted to the language of the premodern: tribalism, ethnic hatreds, cultural inadequacy, irrationality; in short, the Balkans as the antithesis of the modern west. Yet one of the most striking aspects of the wars in Yugoslavia is the extent to which the images purveyed in the western press and in much of the academic literature are so at odds with evidence from on the ground."--The Myth of Ethnic War V.P. Gagnon Jr. believes that the Yugoslav wars of the 1990's were reactionary moves designed to thwart populations that were threatening the existing structures of political and economic power. He begins with facts at odds with the essentialist view of ethnic identity, such as high intermarriage rates and the very high percentage of draft-resisters. These statistics do not comport comfortably with the notion that these wars were the result of ancient blood hatreds or of nationalist leaders using ethnicity to mobilize people into conflict. Yugoslavia in the late 1980's was, in Gagnon's view, on the verge of large-scale sociopolitical and economic change. He shows that political and economic elites in Belgrade and Zagreb first created and then manipulated violent conflict along ethnic lines as a way to short-circuit the dynamics of political change. This strategy of violence was thus a means for these threatened elites to demobilize the population. Gagnon's noteworthy and rather controversial argument provides us with a substantially new way of understanding the politics of ethnicity
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xxi, 217 pages) : maps
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-206) and index.
ISBN:9780801468889
0801468884
9780801472916
0801472911
0801468876
9780801468872

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