Title Western intervention in the Balkans : the strategic use of emotion in conflict / Roger D. Petersen

Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 333 pages) : illustrations Series Cambridge studies in comparative politics Cambridge studies in comparative politics. Contents 1. Western intervention in the Balkans: the strategic use of emotion in ethnic conflict -- 2. Emotions as resources -- 3. The strategic use of emotions, I: The distribution of emotions -- 4. Intervention games -- 5. The strategic use of emotions, II: Developing strategies; examples from non-Balkan cases -- 6. The strategic use of emotions, III: Generating hypotheses -- 7. Background to western intervention in the Balkans -- 8. The case of the Roma in Kosovo -- 9. Background to Kosovo -- 10. Waiting for the West -- 11. Kosovo Intervention Games, I -- 12. Kosovo Intervention Games, II -- 13. Kosovo Conclusions -- 14. South Serbia -- 15. Macedonia -- 16. Bosnia -- 17. Montenegro -- 18. Conclusion Summary Conflicts involve powerful experiences. The residue of these experiences is captured by the concept and language of emotion. Indiscriminate killing creates fear; targeted violence produces anger and a desire for vengeance; political status reversals spawn resentment; cultural prejudices sustain ethnic contempt. These emotions can become resources for political entrepreneurs. A broad range of Western interventions are based on a view of human nature as narrowly rational. Correspondingly, intervention policy generally aims to alter material incentives ('sticks and carrots') to influence behavior. In response, poorer and weaker actors who wish to block or change this Western implemented 'game' use emotions as resources. This book examines the strategic use of emotion in the conflicts and interventions occurring in the Western Balkans over a twenty-year period. The book concentrates on the conflicts among Albanian and Slavic populations (Kosovo, Montenegro, Macedonia, South Serbia), along with some comparisons to Bosnia Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject North Atlantic Treaty Organization -- Armed Forces -- Balkan Peninsula SUBJECT North Atlantic Treaty Organization fast Subject Kosovo War, 1998-1999 -- Participation, Foreign Kosovo War, 1998-1999 -- Psychological aspects Operation Allied Force, 1999 -- Psychological aspects HISTORY -- Europe -- General. Armed Forces Military participation -- Foreign Politics and government Psychological aspects SUBJECT Balkan Peninsula -- History -- 1989- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93006164 Balkan Peninsula -- Politics and government -- 1989- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91000164 Balkan Peninsula Subject Balkan Peninsula Kosovo (Republic) Serbia Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2011008912 ISBN 9781139128612 1139128612 9780511862564 0511862563

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