Perception And Reality In The Modern Yugoslav Conflict

Author : Brendan O'Shea
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134248674

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Perception and Reality in the Modern Yugoslav Conflict by Brendan O'Shea Pdf

In this book, the author has tried bridge the gap between the common perception of the Yugoslav conflict as portrayed in the media and the actual grim reality with which he was dealing as an EU monitor on the ground. Drawing on original material from both UN and ECMM sources, he has identified the true origin of Former Yugoslavia's wars of dissolution, and critically examines the programme of violence which erupted in 1991 and eventually culminated in 1995 in the vicious dismemberment of a sovereign federal republic with seat at the United Nations. In doing so, he highlights the duplicitous behaviour of all parties to the conflict; the double standards employed throughout by the United States in its foreign policy; the lengths to which the Sarajevo government manipulated the international media to promote a 'victim' status; the contempt in which UN peace-keepers were ultimately held by all sides; and the manner in which Radovan Karadzic was sacrificed at the altar of political expediency, when the real culprits were Slobodan Milosevic and his acolyte, General Ratko Mladic. This book, the first by an EU Monitor with actual experience of the conflict, tells the real story of the modern Yugoslav conflict, 1991-1995.

Author : Brendan O'Shea
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0415357055

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The Modern Yugoslav Conflict 1991-1995 by Brendan O'Shea Pdf

In this book, the author has tried bridge the gap between the common perception of the Yugoslav conflict as portrayed in the media and the actual grim reality with which he was dealing as an EU monitor on the ground. Drawing on original material from both UN and ECMM sources, he has identified the true origin of Former Yugoslavia's wars of dissolution, and critically examines the programme of violence which erupted in 1991 and eventually culminated in 1995 in the vicious dismemberment of a sovereign federal republic with seat at the United Nations. In doing so, he highlights the duplicitous behaviour of all parties to the conflict; the double standards employed throughout by the United States in its foreign policy; the lengths to which the Sarajevo government manipulated the international media to promote a 'victim' status; the contempt in which UN peace-keepers were ultimately held by all sides; and the manner in which Radovan Karadzic was sacrificed at the altar of political expediency, when the real culprits were Slobodan Milosevic and his acolyte, General Ratko Mladic. This book, the first by an EU Monitor with actual experience of the conflict, tells the real story of the modern Yugoslav conflict, 1991-1995.

Author : Brendan O'Shea
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415650243

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Perception and Reality in the Modern Yugoslav Conflict by Brendan O'Shea Pdf

In this book, the author has tried bridge the gap between the common perception of the Yugoslav conflict as portrayed in the media and the actual grim reality with which he was dealing as an EU monitor on the ground. Drawing on original material from both UN and ECMM sources, he has identified the true origin of Former Yugoslavia's wars of dissolution, and critically examines the programme of violence which erupted in 1991 and eventually culminated in 1995 in the vicious dismemberment of a sovereign federal republic with seat at the United Nations. In doing so, he highlights the duplicitous behaviour of all parties to the conflict; the double standards employed throughout by the United States in its foreign policy; the lengths to which the Sarajevo government manipulated the international media to promote a 'victim' status; the contempt in which UN peace-keepers were ultimately held by all sides; and the manner in which Radovan Karadzic was sacrificed at the altar of political expediency, when the real culprits were Slobodan Milosevic and his acolyte, General Ratko Mladic. This book, the first by an EU Monitor with actual experience of the conflict, tells the real story of the modern Yugoslav conflict, 1991-1995.

Author : Christopher Bennett
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814712887

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Yugoslavia's Bloody Collapse by Christopher Bennett Pdf

An incisive and revealing history of how Yugoslavia plunged into violence in the 1990s Over the past two years, the entire world watched in horror as one of Europe's most stable countries plunged into an orgy of violence and bloodshed that has invoked comparisons to the Holocaust. Aside from empty threats and diplomatic hand wringing, the West has done little to stop the ethnic cleansing, the sieges, and the brutality that has characterized the conflict in the former Yugoslavia. Contrary to common wisdom, the hyper-violent disintegration of the former Yugoslavia is not simply and exclusively the product of inherent and irrational ethnic animosities and centuries of strife. In this engaging book, journalist Christopher Bennett traces the turning point to the 1987 struggle within the Serbian Communist party which was between adherents of a Serb nationalist ideology -embodied by Slobodan Milosevic- and the other Yugoslavs who clung to the vision of a multinational state. As soon as Milosevic gained the upper hand, he ruthlessly purged his rivals and launched a massive campaign of media indoctrination to stir up Serb nationalism. This new nationalism, which has repelled the world since 1991, is primarily Milosevic's creation and not merely the result of historical enmity. As a student at two different Yugoslav universities in the 1980's, Bennett witnessed firsthand many if the critical events which contributed to Yugoslavia's destruction. He renders an incisive and accessible history, covering the period from Tito's dictatorship to the present day.

Author : Viktor Bezruchenko
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781682357125

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The Civil War in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992-95) by Viktor Bezruchenko Pdf

The war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992-1995) was the bloodiest and most savage conflict in post-WWII Europe. While numerous books and articles on the subject exist, this book fills an important void by comprehensively addressing the intricacies of the conflict’s political, historic, military, and diplomatic factors. The brutal civil war triggered by the demise of Yugoslavia. Based on documents and eyewitness accounts, the book covers the ideologies, hidden agendas, military operations, covert actions, and diplomacy that resulted in the Dayton Peace Accords of 1995. It also includes the geography, population, and tumultuous history of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The author convincingly dispels myths related to the war, including pre-planned Serbian aggression, the siege of Sarajevo, the massacres of civilians in the UN “safe areas” of Srebrenica and Žepa, and Slobodan Miloševi?’s role.

Author : V. P. Gagnon, Jr.
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801468889

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The Myth of Ethnic War by V. P. Gagnon, Jr. Pdf

"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."—from The Myth of Ethnic War V. P. Gagnon Jr. believes that the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s 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 1980s 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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Bosnia and Herzegovina
ISBN : OCLC:44377648

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Yugoslavia's Wars by Anonim Pdf

Author : Vesna Pešić,United States Institute of Peace
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Government publications
ISBN : PURD:32754066032263

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Serbian Nationalism and the Origins of the Yugoslav Crisis by Vesna Pešić,United States Institute of Peace Pdf

Author : Mirko Klarin
Publisher : Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9788283480009

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The Elusive Reconciliation in the Former Yugoslavia by Mirko Klarin Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 854 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015066043228

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American Book Publishing Record by Anonim Pdf

Author : Charles W. Ingrao,Thomas Allan Emmert
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781557536174

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Confronting the Yugoslav Controversies by Charles W. Ingrao,Thomas Allan Emmert Pdf

This collection of essays examines Yugoslavia's dissolution and the subsequent wars.

Author : Maria N. Todorova
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 683 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004382305

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Scaling the Balkans by Maria N. Todorova Pdf

Maria Todorova puts in conversation several fields that have been traditionally treated as discrete: Balkans, Eastern Europe, Ottoman, Habsburg and Russian empires. Applying different perspectives and different methodological approaches, it insists on the heuristic value of scales

Author : R. Craig Nation,Strategic Studies Institute
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 1312339756

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War in the Balkans, 1991-2002 by R. Craig Nation,Strategic Studies Institute Pdf

Armed conflict on the territory of the former Yugoslavia between 1991 and 2001 claimed over 200,000 lives, gave rise to atrocities unseen in Europe since the Second World War, and left behind a terrible legacy of physical ruin and psychological devastation. Unfolding against the background of the end of cold war bipolarity, the new Balkan wars sounded a discordant counterpoint to efforts to construct a more harmonious European order, were a major embarrassment for the international institutions deemed responsible for conflict management, and became a preoccupation for the powers concerned with restoring regional stability. After more than a decade of intermittent hostilities the conflict has been contained, but only as a result of significant external interventions and the establishment of a series of de facto international protectorates, patrolled by UN, NATO, and EU sponsored peacekeepers with open-ended mandates.

Author : Jelena Batinić
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107091078

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Women and Yugoslav Partisans by Jelena Batinić Pdf

This book focuses on the mass participation of women in the communist-led Yugoslav Partisan resistance during World War II.

Author : Independent International Commission on Kosovo,The@independent international commission on Kosovo,Independent International Commission on
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2000-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199243099

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The Kosovo Report by Independent International Commission on Kosovo,The@independent international commission on Kosovo,Independent International Commission on Pdf

The war in Kosovo was a turning point: NATO deployed its armed forces in war for the first time, and placed the controversial doctrine of 'humanitarian intervention' squarely in the world's eye. It was an armed intervention for the purpose of implementing Security Council resolutions-but without Security Council authorization.This report tries to answer a number of burning questions, such as why the international community was unable to act earlier and prevent the escalation of the conflict, as well as focusing on the capacity of the United Nations to act as global peacekeeper.The Commission recommends a new status for Kosovo, 'conditional independence', with the goal of lasting peace and security for Kosovo-and for the Balkan region in general. But many of the conslusions may be beneficially applied to conflicts the world-over.