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This time we knew : western responses to genocide in Bosnia

"We didn't know." For half a century, Western politicians and intellectuals have in this fashion 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 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 disinterested viewer to ignore the grim reality of genocide
Print Book, English, ©1996
New York University Press, New York, ©1996
Aufsatzsammlung
ix, 412 pages ; 24 cm
9780814715345, 9780822939535, 9780814715352, 0814715346, 0822939533, 0814715354
34604122
The complicity of Serbian intellectuals in genocide in the 1990s / Philip J. Cohen
Bosnia : the lessons of history? / Brendan Simms
No pity for Sarajevo ; The West's Serbianization ; When the West stands in for the dead / Jean Baudrillard
Israel and the war in Bosnia / Daniel Kofman
The politics of indifference at the United Nations and genocide in Rwanda and Bosnia / Michael N. Barnett
The West Side story of the collapse of Yugoslavia and the wars in Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina / Slaven Letica
Serbia's war lobby : diaspora groups and Western elites / Brad K. Blitz
Moral relativism and equidistance in British attitudes to the war in the former Yugoslavia / Daniele Conversi
The former Yugoslavia, the end of the Nuremberg era, and the new barbarism / James J. Sadkovich
War and ethnic identity in Eastern Europe : does the post-Yugoslav crisis portend wider chaos? / Liah Greenfeld
The anti-genocide movement on American college campuses : a growing response to the Balkan war / Sheri Fink
Western responses to the current Balkan war / David Riesman