LEADER 04478nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910792004403321 005 20230817234915.0 010 $a0-8014-6887-6 010 $a0-8014-6888-4 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801468889 035 $a(CKB)2560000000102708 035 $a(OCoLC)646515896 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10720548 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001102966 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11721749 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001102966 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11083568 035 $a(PQKB)11608329 035 $a(DE-B1597)489616 035 $a(OCoLC)1024012168 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801468889 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138491 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10720548 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL681780 035 $a(OCoLC)922998399 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138491 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000102708 100 $a20060628d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe myth of ethnic war $eSerbia and Croatia in the 1990s /$fV.P. Gagnon, Jr 210 $aIthaca, NY $cCornell University Press$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (xxi, 217 pages) $cmaps 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a1-322-50498-9 311 0 $a0-8014-7291-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references appendix, and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tABBREVIATIONS --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tPREFACE --$t1. The Puzzle of the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990's --$t2. Image versus Reality: Misidentifying the Causes of Violence --$t3. Political Conflict in the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, 1960's-1989 --$t4. Serbia and the Strategy of Demobilization, 1990-2000 --$t5. Croatia and the Strategy of Demobilization, 1990-2000 --$tConclusion --$tAppendix. A Brief Overview of the Literature --$tSelected Bibliography --$tIndex 330 $a"The wars in Bosnia-Herzegovina and in neighboring Croatia and Kosovo grabbed the attention of the western world not only because of their ferocity and their geographic location, but also because of their timing. This violence erupted at the exact moment when the cold war confrontation was drawing to a close, when westerners were claiming their liberal values as triumphant, in a country that had only a few years earlier been seen as very well placed to join the west. In trying to account for this outburst, most western journalists, academics, and policymakers have resorted to the language of the premodern: tribalism, ethnic hatreds, cultural inadequacy, irrationality; in short, the Balkans as the antithesis of the modern west. Yet one of the most striking aspects of the wars in Yugoslavia is the extent to which the images purveyed in the western press and in much of the academic literature are so at odds with evidence from on the ground."-from The Myth of Ethnic War V. P. Gagnon Jr. believes that the Yugoslav wars of the 1990's were reactionary moves designed to thwart populations that were threatening the existing structures of political and economic power. He begins with facts at odds with the essentialist view of ethnic identity, such as high intermarriage rates and the very high percentage of draft-resisters. These statistics do not comport comfortably with the notion that these wars were the result of ancient blood hatreds or of nationalist leaders using ethnicity to mobilize people into conflict. Yugoslavia in the late 1980's was, in Gagnon's view, on the verge of large-scale sociopolitical and economic change. He shows that political and economic elites in Belgrade and Zagreb first created and then manipulated violent conflict along ethnic lines as a way to short-circuit the dynamics of political change. This strategy of violence was thus a means for these threatened elites to demobilize the population. Gagnon's noteworthy and rather controversial argument provides us with a substantially new way of understanding the politics of ethnicity. 606 $aYugoslav War, 1991-1995$xCauses 607 $aSerbia$xHistory$y1992- 607 $aCroatia$xHistory$y1990- 615 0$aYugoslav War, 1991-1995$xCauses. 676 $a949.703 700 $aGagnon$b V. P$g(Vale?re Philip)$01552800 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910792004403321 996 $aThe myth of ethnic war$93812899 997 $aUNINA