This Time We Knew Western Responses to Genocide in Bosnia

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Cushman, Thomas, editor (editor), Mestrovic, Stjepan, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : New York University Press [1996]
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009432621006719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • One. Introduction
  • Two. The Complicity of Serbian Intellectuals in Genocide in the 1990s
  • Three. Bosnia: The Lessons of History?
  • Four. No Pity for Sarajevo; The West's Serbianization; When the West Stands In for the Dead
  • Five. Israel and the War in Bosnia
  • Six. The Politics of Indifference at the United Nations and Genocide in Rwanda and Bosnia
  • Seven. The West Side Story of the Collapse of Yugoslavia and the Wars in Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina
  • Eight. Serbia's War Lobby: Diaspora Groups and Western Elites
  • Nine. Moral Relativism and Equidistance in British Attitudes to the War in the Former Yugoslavia
  • Ten. The Former Yugoslavia, the End of the Nuremberg Era, and the New Barbarism
  • Eleven. War and Ethnic Identity in Eastern Europe: Does the Post-Yugoslav Crisis Portend Wider Chaos?
  • Twelve. The Anti-Genocide Movement on American College Campuses: A Growing Response to the Balkan War
  • Thirteen. Western Responses to the Current Balkan War
  • 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
  • Contributors
  • Index