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Record Nr.

UNINA9910145804103321

Titolo

Mapping European security after Kosovo [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Peter van Ham and Sergei Medvedev

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, UK ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press

New York, : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2002

ISBN

1-280-71955-9

9786610719556

1-84779-017-8

1-4175-6921-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 197 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s)

Altri autori (Persone)

HamPeter van <1963->

MedvedevSergeĭ

Disciplina

949.703

Soggetti

National security - Europe

Nationalism - Europe

Kosovo War, 1998-1999

Kosovo (Republic) Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

First published: 2002.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Preface: Kosovo and the outlines of Europe's new order / Sergei Medvedev and Peter van Ham -- Kosovo: a European fin de siècle / Sergei Medvedev -- Simulating European security: Kosovo and the Balkanisation-integration nexus / Peter van Ham -- Kosovo and the end of war / Pertti Joenniemi -- Kosovo and the end of the legitimate warring state / Iver B. Neumann -- Kosovo and the end of the United Nations? / Heikki Patomäki -- Kosov@ and the politics of representation / Maja Zehfuss -- "vvv.nato.int.": virtuousness, virtuality and virtuosity in NATO's representation of the Kosovo campaign / Andreas Behnke -- Of models and monsters: language games in the Kosovo war / Mika Aaltola -- "War is never civilised": civilisation, civil society and the Kosovo war / Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen -- Chechnya and Kosovo: reflections in a distorting mirror / Christoph Zürcher.



Sommario/riassunto

This study provides new horizons on how Kosovo has shaped the new Europe - breaking down traditional assumptions in the field of security studies by sidelining the theoretical worldview that underlies mainstream strategic thinking on recent events in Kosovo.