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Record Nr.

UNISA996552367803316

Autore

Ham Peter van

Titolo

Mapping European security after Kosovo / / Peter van Ham, Sergei Medvedev

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2002

ISBN

1-5261-3751-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 197 pages)

Disciplina

305.8

Soggetti

Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

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.