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Balkan Tragedy
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Author : Susan L. Woodward
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 1995-04-01
Balkan Tragedy written by Susan L. Woodward and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-04-01 with History categories.
Yugoslavia was well positioned at the end of the cold war to make a successful transition to a market economy and westernization. Yet two years later, the country had ceased to exist, and devastating local wars were being waged to create new states. Between the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 and the start of the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina in March 1992, the country moved toward disintegration at astonishing speed. The collapse of Yugoslavia into nationalist regimes led not only to horrendous cruelty and destruction, but also to a crisis of Western security regimes. Coming at the height of euphoria over the end of the cold war and the promise of a ""new world order,"" the conflict presented Western governments and the international community with an unwelcome and unexpected set of tasks. Their initial assessment that the conflict was of little strategic significance or national interest could not be sustained in light of its consequences. By 1994 the conflict had emerged as the most challenging threat to existing norms and institutions that Western leaders faced. And by the end of 1994, more than three years after the international community explicitly intervened to mediate the conflict, there had been no progress on any of the issues raised by the country's dissolution. In this book, Susan Woodward explains what happened to Yugoslavia and what can be learned from the response of outsiders to its crisis. She argues that focusing on ancient ethnic hatreds and military aggression was a way to avoid the problem and misunderstood nationalism in post-communist states. The real origin of the Yugoslav conflict, Woodward explains, is the disintegration of governmental authority and the breakdown of a political and civil order, a process that occurred over a prolonged period. The Yugoslav conflict is inseparable from international change and interdependence, and it is not confined to the Balkans but is part of a more widespread phenomenon of political disintegration. Woodward's analysis is based on her first-hand experience before the country's collapse and then during the later stages of the Bosnian war as a member of the UN operation sent to monitor cease-fires and provide humanitarian assistance. She argues that Western action not only failed to prevent the spread of violence or to negotiate peace, but actually exacerbated the conflict. Woodward attempts to explain why these challenges will not cease or the Yugoslav conflicts end until the actual causes of the conflict, the goals of combatants, and the fundamental issues they pose for international order are better understood and addressed.
The Balkan Tragedy
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Author : David Starr Jordan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1918
The Balkan Tragedy written by David Starr Jordan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1918 with Balkan Peninsula categories.
Balkan Tragedy
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Author : Laird Archer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
Balkan Tragedy written by Laird Archer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Political Science categories.
A Balkan Tragedy Yugoslavia 1941 1946
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Author : Zvonimir Vukovich
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
A Balkan Tragedy Yugoslavia 1941 1946 written by Zvonimir Vukovich and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The memoirs of Zvonimir Vuckovich, participant in the nationalist resistance of General Dragoljub-Draza Mihailovich are among the most important sources for the study of the Yugoslav resistance during the nazi occupation in World War II.
Breaking The South Slav Dream
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Author : Kate Hudson
language : en
Publisher: Pluto Books
Release Date : 2003-06-20
Breaking The South Slav Dream written by Kate Hudson and has been published by Pluto Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-06-20 with Political Science categories.
This is a revisionist history of the rise and fall of Yugoslavia. Assessing the geopolitical and strategic reasons for its creation and dismemberment, it is an important corrective to much contemporary theorising about the destruction of the Yugoslav state. Kate Hudson draws attention to the role of foreign states whose involvement in Yugoslavia did much to destabilise the region, and explains how and why this happened. Tracing the state's origins from 1918 through war and the Tito years, she explains the distortion of the socialist economy resulting from Yugoslavia's unusual position between the two Cold War blocs, and the economic collapse of the 1980s as part of the US's drive for a free market. She also investigates the true causes and effects of the recent wars in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo and brings the book up-to-date with an analysis of Milosevic's downfall, and events in Macedonia and Montenegro.
The Balkans After The Cold War
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Author : Tom Gallagher
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2003-09-02
The Balkans After The Cold War written by Tom Gallagher and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-09-02 with Political Science categories.
At the end of the Cold War, the Balkan states of South East Europe were in crisis. They had emerged from two decades of hardline communism with their economies in disarray and authoritarian leaders poised to whip up nationalist feelings so as to cling on to power. The break up of Yugoslavia followed in 1991 along with prolonged instability in Romania, Bulgaria and Albania. The Balkans After The Cold War analyzes these turbulent events, which led to violence on a scale not seen in Europe for nearly 50 years and offers a detailed critique of Western policy towards the region. This volume follows on from the recently published Outcast Europe: The Balkans, 1789 - 1989 - from the Ottomans to Milosevic, also by Tom Gallagher.
Despite Nationalist Conflicts
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Author : Kristen P. Williams
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2001-02-28
Despite Nationalist Conflicts written by Kristen P. Williams and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-02-28 with Political Science categories.
Williams explores the effectiveness of various types of responses and strategies available to states when faced with demands for territorial revisions. She examines the situations surrounding the 19th-century unification of Germany, the breakup of Yugoslavia and the strife in Bosnia and Kosovo, and the ongoing struggle over the fate of Kashmir. The type of demand for territorial revisions, she argues, and the responses determine whether the outcome will be peace or war. While states should deter those states or groups that are imperialist, she points to the utility of pursuing a firm-but-flexible strategy toward those that are consolidationists. This analysis will be of considerable value to scholars, students, and policy makers involved with issues of contemporary nationalism, ethnic politics, and international relations.
The Humanitarian Conscience
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Author : W. R. Smyser
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Release Date : 2015-06-16
The Humanitarian Conscience written by W. R. Smyser and has been published by Macmillan + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-16 with Political Science categories.
Humanitarian action, long dismissed as a realm apart from major foreign policy concerns, has become an omnipresent element in international affairs. It now shapes the world in which we live and it will have increasingly imporant impact on the way decisions are made in international crises. W.R. Smyser looks at the history of humanitarian activity and it's growth since the horrors of WWII were made public, tracing its early stages connected to the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to the present day when human rights groups, such as Human Rights Watch, are as influential as modern nation states in influencing the course of internation events. This is a monumental portrait of the way in which individuals who are not officially part of any government work to alleviate human suffering and physical destruction around the world.
Revolution And Change In Central And Eastern Europe
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Author : Andrew Goldman
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-09-16
Revolution And Change In Central And Eastern Europe written by Andrew Goldman and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-16 with Political Science categories.
A comprehensive introduction to the nations of Central and Eastern Europe over a half century of turbulent change - from post war subjugation by the Soviet Union to both shared and divergent experiences of post-Communist transition to free-market democracies.
The United States The Balkan Crisis 1990 2005
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Author : Lester H. Brune
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
The United States The Balkan Crisis 1990 2005 written by Lester H. Brune and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.