LEADER 04714nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910824050403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-5017-0433-8 010 $a0-8014-5704-1 010 $a0-8014-5828-5 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801458286 035 $a(CKB)2670000000081164 035 $a(OCoLC)726824185 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10457549 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000483049 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11306155 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000483049 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10529109 035 $a(PQKB)11705951 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3137928 035 $a(OCoLC)1016806414 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse58444 035 $a(DE-B1597)481704 035 $a(OCoLC)987921684 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801458286 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3137928 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10457549 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL753959 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000081164 100 $a20080325d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBlue helmets and black markets $ethe business of survival in the siege of Sarajevo /$fPeter Andreas 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (xv, 208 pages) $cillustrations, map 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a1-336-22673-0 311 0 $a0-8014-4355-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$t1. The Longest Siege --$t2. Imposing the Siege --$t3. Sustaining the Siege --$t4. The Siege Within --$t5. Lifting the Siege --$t6. Aftermath --$t7. Extensions --$tConclusions --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aThe 1992-1995 battle for Sarajevo was the longest siege in modern history. It was also the most internationalized, attracting a vast contingent of aid workers, UN soldiers, journalists, smugglers, and embargo-busters. The city took center stage under an intense global media spotlight, becoming the most visible face of post-Cold War conflict and humanitarian intervention. However, some critical activities took place backstage, away from the cameras, including extensive clandestine trading across the siege lines, theft and diversion of aid, and complicity in the black market by peacekeeping forces. In Blue Helmets and Black Markets, Peter Andreas traces the interaction between these formal front-stage and informal backstage activities, arguing that this created and sustained a criminalized war economy and prolonged the conflict in a manner that served various interests on all sides. Although the vast majority of Sarajevans struggled for daily survival and lived in a state of terror, the siege was highly rewarding for some key local and international players. This situation also left a powerful legacy for postwar reconstruction: new elites emerged via war profiteering and an illicit economy flourished partly based on the smuggling networks built up during wartime. Andreas shows how and why the internationalization of the siege changed the repertoires of siege-craft and siege defenses and altered the strategic calculations of both the besiegers and the besieged. The Sarajevo experience dramatically illustrates that just as changes in weapons technologies transformed siege warfare through the ages, so too has the arrival of CNN, NGOs, satellite phones, UN peacekeepers, and aid convoys. Drawing on interviews, reportage, diaries, memoirs, and other sources, Andreas documents the business of survival in wartime Sarajevo and the limits, contradictions, and unintended consequences of international intervention. Concluding with a comparison of the battle for Sarajevo with the sieges of Leningrad, Grozny, and Srebrenica, and, more recently, Falluja, Blue Helmets and Black Markets is a major contribution to our understanding of contemporary urban warfare, war economies, and the political repercussions of humanitarian action. 606 $aSmuggling$zBosnia and Hercegovina$zSarajevo 606 $aBlack market$zBosnia and Hercegovina$zSarajevo 606 $aHumanitarian assistance$zBosnia and Hercegovina$zSarajevo 607 $aSarajevo (Bosnia and Hercegovina)$xHistory$ySiege, 1992-1996 615 0$aSmuggling 615 0$aBlack market 615 0$aHumanitarian assistance 676 $a949.703 686 $a15.70$2bcl 700 $aAndreas$b Peter$f1965-$01610089 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910824050403321 996 $aBlue helmets and black markets$94073899 997 $aUNINA