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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... ethnic group over all others.” Following David Riesman, our reply is that it depends on which nationalism and particular context is under discussion. As the great Czech statesman and sociologist Thomas Masaryk argued, nationalism can be ...
... ethnic nationalism can be made more democratic than it has often been so far in various postcommunist societies. Proponents of neo-isolationism hold that “all sides in the former Yugoslavia have committed atrocities,” so the West would ...
... nationalism as an antidote to the threat of communism. It is rare for Western intellectuals to see any constructive dimensions of ethnic nationalism. 45. See, for example, Raymond Bonner, “Embargoed Fuel Sent to Serbs via Albania,” New ...
... Nation,” Washington Post, June 19, 1994, E4, in which Morgan ... Ethnic Cleansing,” Boston Globe, October 22, 1995, 78, which notes, “Much of what has been happening today in the Balkans cannot be understood outside the context of the ethnic ...
... nation-states. For example, see Steven Greenhouse, “Clinton Meets with Bosnian and Croatian Chiefs,” New York Times, March ... Ethnic Tribes and Pandemonium,” U.S. News and World Report, February 15, 1993, 55. 69. For example, “Serbian ...
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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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