From Yugoslavia to the Western Balkans : studies of a European disunion, 1991-2011 /

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Main Authors: Hayden, Robert M. (Author)
Published: Brill,
Publisher Address: Leiden :
Publication Dates: 2013.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Balkan studies library ; volume 7
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Carrier Form: xviii, 391 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9789004241909 (hardback) :
Index Number: DR1318
CLC: D754.05
Call Number: D754.05/H415
Contents: Part I. UNSTAKING VAMPIRES : DESTROYING THE YUGOSLAV NATION AND STATE -- The Use of National Stereotypes in the Wars in Yugoslavia -- Recounting the Dead : The Rediscovery and Redefinition of Wartime Massacres in Late- and Post-Communist Yugoslavia -- The Partition of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1990-93 -- Muslims as "Others" in Serbian and Croatian Politics -- Imagined Communities and Real Victims : Self-Determination and Ethnic Cleansing in Yugoslavia -- PART II. THE POWER OF LABELING : DISCOURSES ON GENOCIDE, ETHNIC CLEANSING & POPULATION TRANSFERS -- Schindler's Fate : Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing and Population Transfers -- Mass Killings and Images of Genocide in Bosnia, 1941-45 and 1992-95 -- Mass Rape and Rape Avoidance in Ethno-National Conflicts : Sexual Violence in Liminalized States -- PART III. HUMANITARIAN HYPOCRISY -- Human Rights Activists and the Civil War in Yugoslavia : The Questionable Morality of Liberal Absolutism -- Humanrightsism : From Moral Critique of Violence to Crusade for Moral Violence -- "Genocide Denial" Laws as Secular Heresy : A Critical Analysis with Reference to Bosnia -- What's Reconciliation Got to Do With It? : The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) as Antiwar Profitee -- PART IV. UN-IMAGINING COMMUNITIES -- "Democracy" Without a Demos? : The Bosnian Constitutional Experiment -- The Proposed 2009 Amendments on the Bosnian Constitution and the Continuing Reinvention of the Square Wheel -- Moral Vision and Impaired Insight : Or, the Imagining of Other Peoples? : Communities in Bosnia -- CODA: REBUILDING THE BALKANS -- From EUphoria to EU-goslavia.