This Time We Knew: Western Responses to Genocide in Bosnia

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Thomas Cushman, Stjepan Gabriel Meštrović
NYU Press, 1996 - 412 pages

A crafted collection detailing western responses to the Balkan War

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.

And yet, while information abounds, so do rationalizations for non-intervention in Balkan affairs—the threshold of real genocide has yet to be reached in Bosnia; all sides are equally guilty; Islamic fundamentalism in Bosnia is a threat to the West; it will only end when they all tire of killing each other—to name but a few.

In This Time We Knew, Thomas Cushman and Stjepan G. Mestrovic have put together a collection of critical, reflective, essays that offer detailed sociological, political, and historical analyses of western responses to the war. This volume punctures once and for all common excuses for Western inaction. This Time We Knew further reveals the reasons why these rationalizations have persisted and led to the West's failure to intercede, in the face of incontrovertible evidence, in the most egregious crimes against humanity to occur in Europe since World War II.

Contributors to the volume include Kai Erickson, Jean Baudrillard, Mark Almond, David Riesman, Daniel Kofman, Brendan Simms, Daniele Conversi, Brad Kagan Blitz, James J. Sadkovich, and Sheri Fink.

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Table des matières

One Introduction
1
Two The Complicity of Serbian Intellectuals
14
The Lessons of History?
65
Four No Pity for Sarajevo The Wests
79
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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À propos de l'auteur (1996)

Thomas Cushman is Professor of Sociology at Wellesley College in Massachusetts and the founder and editor-at-large of the Journal of Human Rights. He has written or edited numerous books, including George Orwell Into the 21st Century, A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq, and This Time We Knew: Western Responses to Genocide in Bosnia (NYU Press).

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