From Yugoslavia to the western Balkans : studies of a European disunion, 1991-2011 / / by Robert M. Hayden.

• Author: Hayden, Robert M.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Balkan Studies Library 7.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (409 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This book brings together important original contributions to scholarly and political/policy debates over the disintegration of Yugoslavia, and especially the war in Bosnia. The analyses are grounded on empirically-based arguments about social and political dynamics, resonate with much larger/enduring issues of social science inquiry, and consistently challenge commonly-held beliefs about the Balkans that are based more on ignorance, misunderstanding, or outright prejudice, than on intimate knowledge of the region, its peoples, and their histories. When first published, some of these essays represented sharply distinctive analyses which have since then become “common wisdom.” Hayden’s arguments about how this multinational European federation collapsed following a severe economic crisis are disturbingly relevant to analyzing the crisis of the European Union twenty years later.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Robert M. Hayden -- 1. The Use of National Stereotypes in the Wars in Yugoslavia / Robert M. Hayden -- 2. Recounting the Dead: The Rediscovery and Redefinition of Wartime Massacres in Late- and Post-Communist Yugoslavia / Robert M. Hayden -- 3. The Partition of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1990–93 / Robert M. Hayden -- 4. Muslims as “Others” in Serbian and Croatian Politics / Robert M. Hayden -- 5. Imagined Communities and Real Victims: Self-Determination and Ethnic Cleansing in Yugoslavia / Robert M. Hayden -- 6. Schindler’s Fate: Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing and Population Transfers / Robert M. Hayden -- 7. Mass Killings and Images of Genocide in Bosnia, 1941–45 and 1992–95 / Robert M. Hayden -- 8. Mass Rape and Rape Avoidance in Ethno-National Conflicts: Sexual Violence in Liminalized States / Robert M. Hayden -- 9. Human Rights Activists and the Civil War in Yugoslavia: The Questionable Morality of Liberal Absolutism / Robert M. Hayden -- 10. Humanrightsism: From Moral Critique of Violence to Crusade for Moral Violence / Robert M. Hayden -- 11. “Genocide Denial” Laws as Secular Heresy: A Critical Analysis with Reference to Bosnia / Robert M. Hayden -- 12. What’s Reconciliation Got to Do With It? The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) as Antiwar Profitee / Robert M. Hayden -- 13. “Democracy” Without a Demos? The Bosnian Constitutional Experiment / Robert M. Hayden -- 14. The Proposed 2009 Amendments on the Bosnian Constitution and the Continuing Reinvention of the Square Wheel / Robert M. Hayden -- 15. Moral Vision and Impaired Insight: Or the Imagining of Other Peoples’ Communities in Bosnia / Robert M. Hayden -- 16. From EUphoria to EU-goslavia / Robert M. Hayden -- Index / Robert M. Hayden.