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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... action was not agreeable to all the members of the NATO alliance. Yet it did occur, and the very fact that it did was remarkable, for the response of the West to the crisis in the Balkans prior to the air strikes had been weak ...
... action on the part of the West, the tragedies and atrocities continued. It is clear that peace in the former Yugoslavia is preferable to the continued loss of life. Yet even if peace is achieved there, a vivid memory of a form of ...
... action. In Orwell's case, his contempt for fascism served as a compulsion to act against it by supporting antifascists with his thoughts and, if need be, his life. In the present day, it seems, a new kind of Introduction • 5.
... action is full of meaning for apprehending history as well as the present. In addition, this contrast causes us to rethink the success of the so-called Enlightenment project: the passive Western observation of genocide and other war ...
... actions are a merely a reflection of the vicious tendencies that exist within us under the veneer of enlightened ... action in relation to them seems to consist in choosing what is best for ourselves and respecting the voice of the ...
Table des matières
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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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