UID:
almahu_9947414198402882
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 333 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511862564 (ebook)
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in comparative politics
Content:
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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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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.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781107010666
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511862564
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