This Time We Knew: Western Responses to Genocide in BosniaThomas Cushman, Stjepan Mestrovic NYU Press, 1 oct. 1996 - 422 pages We didn't know. For half a century, Western politicians and intellectuals have so explained away their inaction in the face of genocide in World War II. In stark contrast, Western observers today face a daily barrage of information and images, from CNN, the Internet, and newspapers about the parties and individuals responsible for the current Balkan War and crimes against humanity. The stories, often accompanied by video or pictures of rape, torture, mass graves, and ethnic cleansing, available almost instantaneously, do not allow even the most uninterested viewer to ignore the grim reality of genocide. |
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... World War II will remain. Western scholars will try to explain that barbarism to themselves for a long time to come. They will seek answers to questions about the perpetrators of atrocities and war crimes. But at the same time, the ...
... World War II, the last time genocide appeared as a state policy in Europe, Nazi leaders or their acolytes in the West would have been interviewed on forums such as the CBS newsmagazine Sixty Minutes, on National Public Radio, or in the ...
... world disorder.” Indeed, if in a previous age intellectuals were characterized by an almost overzealous degree of commitment to various causes, the present age is characterized by a stance of almost “aggressive ambivalence.” It often ...
... World War II. From Auschwitz to Bosnia Until now, the most common rationalization given by intellectuals for not stopping the Holocaust is “we did not know.” This may or may not have been the case, since, even with regard to the ...
... world order. It may be that the Internet opens up the practice of “postmodern politics,” and it may be, as activist Sheri Fink points out in this volume, that electronic media have enhanced the ability of activists to mobilize support ...
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Five Israel and the War in Bosnia | 90 |
Six The Politics of Indifference at the United | 128 |
Seven The West Side Story of the Collapse | 163 |
Diaspora Groups | 187 |
Attitudes to the War in the Former Yugoslavia | 244 |
Ten The Former Yugoslavia the End of | 282 |
Twelve The AntiGenocide Movement on American | 313 |
Thirteen Western Responses to the Current Balkan War | 350 |
A Definition of Genocide | 359 |
Contributors | 403 |
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