Format:
1 online resource (352 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780203800843
Content:
The Social Construction of Man, the State, and War is the fist book on conflict in the former Yugoslavia to look seriously at the issue of ethnic identity, rather than treating it as a given, an unquestionable variable. Combining detailed analysis with a close reading of historical narratives, documentary evidence, and first-hand interviews conducted in the former Yugoslavia, Wilmer sheds new light on how ethnic identity is constructed, and what that means for the future of peace and sovereignty throughout the world.
Content:
BOOK COVER -- HALF-TITLE -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- DEDICATION -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CHAPTER 1 International Relations Theory and the Problem of Violence -- Ethnic Groups, Moral Communities, and States -- Conflict, Violence, and War -- The Current Crisis in IR Theory -- What We Can Learn from the Former Yugoslavia -- CHAPTER 2 What Happened in Yugoslavia? -- Categories, Stories, and Allegories -- Pre-Yugoslavia History -- The Yugoslav Civil War, 1941-1944 -- Structural Causes I: The Domestic Context -- Structural Causes II: Interplay between Domestic and International Structures -- The Destruction of Yugoslavia -- Dayton: Peace or Another "Peace Process?" -- Peace, Peace Processes, and Civil Society -- CHAPTER 3 The Social Construction of Man: Identity, the Self, and Social Theory -- Is There Something "Terrible" in All of Us? -- The Structure of the Self -- Psychoanalytic Theory, Identity, and Conflict -- Identity, Historicity, and Socialization -- Ethnic Conflict Revisited: Inside Looking Out -- CHAPTER 4 Identity and (Ethnic) Conflict in the Former Yugoslavia: In Their Own Words -- Problematizing "Ethnic Conflict" -- Well You See I Am Yugoslav, But There Is No Yugoslavia -- National and Ethnic Identities -- Encountering the Other -- In War, Everything Turns Black and White -- The Erdemović Case -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 5 The Social Construction of the State: State-Building and State-Destroying as Social Action -- Where Do States Comes From? -- Ethnic Groups, Nations, and States -- Theories of the State -- Legitimacy and Social Cohesion -- Balkan Ghosts, Narrative Practices, and Politics -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 6 The Social Construction of War -- War as Social Practice -- Where Structural Accounts Fall Short -- Prologue to War: Hate Speech and Media Control -- Ethnic Prejudices in Ex-Yugoslavia: The Emotional Side of War.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415929622
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780415929622
Additional Edition:
Print version Social Construction of Man, the State and War : Identity, Conflict, and Violence in Former Yugoslavia
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
Keywords:
Föderative Republik Jugoslawien
;
Soziale Situation
;
Nationale Minderheit
;
Gewalt
;
Jugoslawienkriege
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=178991
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