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Title Confronting the Yugoslav controversies : a scholars' initiative / edited by Charles Ingrao and Thomas A. Emmert
Edition 2nd ed
Published Washington, D.C. : United States Institute of Peace Press ; West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 479 pages)
Series Central European studies
Central European studies.
Contents The dissolution of Yugoslavia / Andrew Wachtel and Christopher Bennett -- Kosovo under autonomy, 1974-1990 / Momcilo Pavlovic -- Independence and the fate of minorities, 1991-1992 / Gale Stokes -- Ethnic cleansing and war crimes, 1991-1995 / Marie-Janine Calic -- The international community and the fry/belligerents, 1989-1997 / Matjaz Klemencic -- Safe areas / Charles Ingrao -- The war in Croatia, 1991-1995 / Mile Bjelajac and Ozren Zunec -- Kosovo under the Milosevic regime / Dusan Janjic, with Anna Lalaj and Besnik Pula -- The war in Kosovo, 1998-1999 / James Gow -- The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia / John B. Allcock, editor -- Living together or hating each other? / David MacDonald, editor -- Montenegro : a polity in flux, 1989-2000 / Kenneth Morrison
Summary It has been two decades since Yugoslavia fell apart. The brutal conflicts that followed its dissolution are over, but the legacy of the tragedy continues to unsettle the region. Reconciliation is a long and difficult process that necessitates a willingness to work together openly and objectively in confronting the past. Over the past ten years the Scholars? Initiative has assembled an international consortium of historians, social scientists, and jurists to examine the salient controversies that still divide the peoples of former Yugoslavia. The findings of its eleven research teams represent a direct assault on the proprietary narratives and interpretations that nationalist politicians and media have impressed on mass culture in each of the successor states. Given gaps in the historical record and the existence of sometimes contradictory evidence, this volume does not pretend to resolve all of the outstanding issues. Nevertheless, this second edition incorporates new evidence and major developments that have taken place in the region since the first edition went to press. At the heart of this project has always been the insistence of the authors that they would continue to reconsider their analyses and conclusions based on credible new evidence. Thus, in this second edition, the work of the Scholars' Initiative continues. The broadly conceived synthesis will assist scholars, public officials, and the people they represent both in acknowledging inconvenient facts and in discrediting widely held myths that inform popular attitudes and the electoral success of nationalist politicians who profit from them. Rather than rely on special pleading and appeals to patriotism that have no place in scholarship, the volume vests its credibility in the scientific credentials of its investigators, the transparent impartiality of its methodology, and an absolute commitment to soliciting and examining evidence presented by all sides
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Ethnic conflict -- Yugoslavia -- History -- 20th century
Ethnic conflict -- Former Yugoslav republics -- History -- 20th century
Yugoslav War, 1991-1995.
Kosovo War, 1998-1999.
HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Former Soviet Republics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Nationalism & Patriotism.
Ethnic conflict
Ethnic relations
SUBJECT Yugoslavia -- History -- 1992-2003. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92001874
Former Yugoslav republics -- History
Yugoslavia -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century
Former Yugoslav republics -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century
Kosovo (Republic) -- History -- 1980-2008. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90005621
Subject Kosovo (Republic)
Serbia
Yugoslavia
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Ingrao, Charles W., editor.
Emmert, Thomas Allan, 1945- editor.
ISBN 9781612492285
1612492282
9781612492278
1612492274