From Yugoslavia to the western Balkans
Subtitle: studies of a European disunion, 1991-2011
By: by Robert M. Hayden
Series: Balkan studies library -- volume 7
Publisher: Brill; BRILL
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9789004241909; 9789004241916
Subjects: Politics and government; Genocide; Ethnic conflict; Nationalism; Yugoslav War, 1991-1995; Ethnic relations
Other titles: Brill e-books.
Description: The Euro crisis catapulted the European Union into its most serious political crisis since its inception, leaving it simultaneously torn between opposing demands for more sovereignty and solidarity. Throughout its history, the Union has been plagued by power struggles between its member states. Periodic crises have been met by indecision and compromise that put securing agreement above effective outcomes. The complexity of its decision making processes is mainly due to the refusal to concentrate power and wish to preserve enough semblance of national sovereignty to retain the respect and loyalty of member state citizens. This edited volume focuses on the key themes of disunion, sovereignty and solidarity. It assesses all of the main EU institutions: member states, civil society actors and policy areas.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. UNSTAKING VAMPIRES : DESTROYING THE YUGOSLAV NATION AND STATE; title: The Use of National Stereotypes in the Wars in Yugoslavia; title: Recounting the Dead : The Rediscovery and Redefinition of Wartime Massacres in Late- and Post-Communist Yugoslavia; title: The Partition of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1990-93; title: Muslims as "Others" in Serbian and Croatian Politics; title: Imagined Communities and Real Victims : Self-Determination and Ethnic Cleansing in Yugoslavia; title: PART II. THE POWER OF LABELING : DISCOURSES ON GENOCIDE, ETHNIC CLEANSING & POPULATION TRANSFERS; title: Schindler's Fate : Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing and Population Transfers; title: Mass Killings and Images of Genocide in Bosnia, 1941-45 and 1992-95; title: Mass Rape and Rape Avoidance in Ethno-National Conflicts : Sexual Violence in Liminalized States; title: PART III. HUMANITARIAN HYPOCRISY; title: Human Rights Activists and the Civil War in Yugoslavia : The Questionable Morality of Liberal Absolutism; title: Humanrightsism : From Moral Critique of Violence to Crusade for Moral Violence; title: "Genocide Denial" Laws as Secular Heresy : A Critical Analysis with Reference to Bosnia; title: What's Reconciliation Got to Do With It? : The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) as Antiwar Profitee; title: PART IV. UN-IMAGINING COMMUNITIES; title: "Democracy" Without a Demos? : The Bosnian Constitutional Experiment; title: The Proposed 2009 Amendments on the Bosnian Constitution and the Continuing Reinvention of the Square Wheel; title: Moral Vision and Impaired Insight : Or, the Imagining of Other Peoples? : Communities in Bosnia; title: CODA: REBUILDING THE BALKANS; title: From EUphoria to EU-goslavia.