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Worlds Apart : Bosnian Lessons for Global Security

Englisch

North Carolina : Duke University Press, 2011

Online-Ressource (298 p)

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Print version: Worlds Apart : Bosnian Lessons for Global Security

978-0-8223-4975-4

978-0-8223-9409-9 : 26.5 (NL)

Weitere Ausgaben: 978-0-8223-4975-4 (Druckausgabe)

Contents; Author's Note; Map of Yugoslavia; Prologue; Acknowledgments; Context; Part I: War; Section 1: Officialdom; Section 2: Victims or Agents?; Section 3: Deadly Stereotypes; Section 4: Fissures and Connections; Section 5: The End Approaches; Part II : Peace; Section 6: After Dayton; Section 7: Imperfect Justice; Section 8: International Inadequacies; Section 9: Women's Initiative; Section 10: Recreating Community; Bridging: Six Lessons from Bosnia; Epilogue; Notes; Index

Inside : "Esteemed Mr. Carrington"Outside : a convenient euphemism -- Inside : angels and animals -- Outside : Carter and conscience -- Inside : "If I left, everyone would flee" -- Outside : none of our business -- Inside : Silajdžić -- Outside : unintended consequences -- Inside : the bread factory -- Outside : elegant tables -- Inside : the unspeakable -- Outside : the politics of rape -- Inside : an unlikely soldier -- Outside : happy Fourth of July -- Inside : women on the side -- Outside : contact sport -- Inside : an artificial war -- Outside : clashes -- Inside : crossing the fault line -- Outside : "The truth about Goražde" -- Inside : loyal -- Outside : Pentagon sympathies -- Inside : family friends -- Outside : extremists -- Inside : family ties -- Outside : federation -- Inside : school days -- Outside : forces and counterforces -- Inside : blood -- Outside : trade-offs -- Inside : grim lullaby -- Outside : security and cooperation -- Inside : Sarajevo Cinderella -- Outside : failure at Srebrenica -- Inside : Magbula's parrot -- Outside : the accident -- Inside : boys pretending -- Outside : bombs and bluffs -- Inside : side by side -- Outside: decisions at Dayton -- Inside : morning has broken -- Outside : waiting for Christmas -- Inside : Serb exodus -- Outside : refugees in Austria -- Inside : refugees at the residence -- Outside : diplobabble -- Inside : displaced -- Outside : sowing and reaping -- Inside : Banja Luka bitterness -- Outside : war criminals -- Inside : uncatchable -- Outside : evenhanded -- Inside : no justice in Srebrenica -- Outside : the tribunal -- Inside : waiting for the truth -- Outside : intelligence and political will -- Inside : professor, perpetrator, president -- Outside : the fourth warring party -- Inside : city signs -- Outside : out of step -- Inside : by a thread -- Outside : missing -- Inside : surviving the peace -- Outside : press tour -- Inside : organized for action -- Outside : Lyons -- Inside : "What's an NGO"? -- Outside : skewed -- Inside : a league of their own -- Outside : "With all due respect" -- Inside : Beethoven's Fifth -- Outside : "Neither free nor fair" -- Inside : Sarajevo red -- Outside : re-leaf -- Inside : watermelons -- Outside Arizona -- Inside : three hundred gold coins -- Outside : mistrust in Mostar -- Inside : new bridges -- Outside : Air Force One -- Bridging : six lessons: Test truisms; question stereotypes; find out-of-power allies; appreciate domestic dynamics; find fault; embrace responsibility.

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Klassifikation der Library of Congress: DR1313.H868 2011

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 949.703;

Offers perspectives on how we may try to attain global security, using her knowledge of the recent war in Bosnia as a case study and arguing that decisions by both participants and policy makers should not be made from just one vantage point

 

Online-Ausg.

2013

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