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Yugoslavia Unraveled
$85.00
Cloth
0-7391-0517-5
February 2003
368pp
$29.95
Paper
0-7391-0757-7
August 2003
368pp
This volume is a necessary corrective to the way the history of the
breakup of Yugoslavia has been constructed for the public. Never has it
been so important to counter the big lie of 'humanitarian intervention'
that was undertaken by noble Western nations to 'save' the Balkans.
This book collects incisive works by top scholars in a range of
disciplines, delivering a clear and compelling analysis uncommon for
edited collections. —Robert Jensen, University of
Texas-Austin
This book makes two contributions one theoretical and one historical.
The human tragedies of the last decade's civil wars precipitated an
emerging view among many statesmen, international lawyers, human rights
activists, and analysts that the sovereignty principle should be
eroded. States that are hard on their people should lose their
customary international legal right to be free from foreign
intervention. Instead, outside powers can and should intervene to put
things right when governments fighting for their survival fail to
conform to others' principles and norms. This book traces how the
attack on sovereignty emerged during Yugoslavia's dissolution, and how
it contributed to that dissolution. It directs attention to the
negative consequences that did arise, and will arise, once the
sovereignty principle is compromised. Yugoslavia's dissolution produced
a body of historical, autobiographical, and analytic publications much
of it impressive, but much of which also succumbed to the temptation of
attributing evil outcomes to evil men mostly evil Serbian men, and good
outcomes to good men and women, mostly U.S. and western European. This
book marks the beginning of a new approach to the understanding of
these important and tragic events, a more
historically familiar tale distributing responsibility among multiple
parties, inside and outside- parties with mixed motives, poor
information, bad theories, limited political skill, and malleable
principles. —Barry Posen, M.I.T.
Yet another addition to the bookcases of volumes on the latest Balkan
wars, you ask? But this collection of essays assembled by Raju G.C.
Thomas, and complemented by his own, is something different. Drawing on
his personal background, Thomas ventures, credibly, that what is
described in Yugoslavia Unraveled could have happened to his native
India, too, if it had been a small country and lacked nuclear weapons.
He and the other authors go on to explore the tragedies of
self-determination gone amok, of 'morality as a product of power' on
the part of big interventionist countries, of the destructive role that
'advocacy scholarship' and the new 'government-media-academia-complex'
played in tearing Yugoslavia apart during the 1990s. In short, a
valuable work. —David Binder, New York Times
Yugoslavia Unraveled makes a solid contribution to our understanding of
the Balkan tragedies of the 1990s. The book shows clearly how the
Western powers undermined Yugoslavia' s sovereignty and thereby helped
cause the ensuing bloodshed and chaos. The policies pursued by those
powers have implications far beyond the Balkans and are likely to haunt
the international community for decades to come. Thomas has written a
powerful account that should be must reading for policymakers and
interested laymen alike. —Ted Galen Carpenter,
Cato Institute
Yugoslavia Unraveled should be required reading for the enthusiasts of
humanitarian U.S. interventionism and for the policy-makers who have
prematurely declared the Balkan tragedy a 'success story.' The
contributors to this compendium offer solid evidence that highlights
the inherent dangers of using ethnic stereotyping as a substitute for
the rule of law. —Nikolaos A. Stavrou, Editor of
Mediterranean Quarterly
Yugoslavia Unraveled presents a comprehensive account of a subject many
wish to forget, with all its failures and successes, heroes and
villains. It deserves a wide readership. No student or scholar in
political science should be without it —Damjan de
Krnjevic-Miskovic , The National Interest
Reviews.shtml?command=Search&db=%5EDB/CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=0739105175
Reviews for
Yugoslavia Unraveled
$85.00
Cloth
0-7391-0517-5
February 2003
368pp
$29.95
Paper
0-7391-0757-7
August 2003
368pp
This volume is a necessary corrective to the way the history of the
breakup of Yugoslavia has been constructed for the public. Never has it
been so important to counter the big lie of 'humanitarian intervention'
that was undertaken by noble Western nations to 'save' the Balkans.
This book collects incisive works by top scholars in a range of
disciplines, delivering a clear and compelling analysis uncommon for
edited collections. —Robert Jensen, University of
Texas-Austin
This book makes two contributions one theoretical and one historical.
The human tragedies of the last decade's civil wars precipitated an
emerging view among many statesmen, international lawyers, human rights
activists, and analysts that the sovereignty principle should be
eroded. States that are hard on their people should lose their
customary international legal right to be free from foreign
intervention. Instead, outside powers can and should intervene to put
things right when governments fighting for their survival fail to
conform to others' principles and norms. This book traces how the
attack on sovereignty emerged during Yugoslavia's dissolution, and how
it contributed to that dissolution. It directs attention to the
negative consequences that did arise, and will arise, once the
sovereignty principle is compromised. Yugoslavia's dissolution produced
a body of historical, autobiographical, and analytic publications much
of it impressive, but much of which also succumbed to the temptation of
attributing evil outcomes to evil men mostly evil Serbian men, and good
outcomes to good men and women, mostly U.S. and western European. This
book marks the beginning of a new approach to the understanding of
these important and tragic events, a more
historically familiar tale distributing responsibility among multiple
parties, inside and outside- parties with mixed motives, poor
information, bad theories, limited political skill, and malleable
principles. —Barry Posen, M.I.T.
Yet another addition to the bookcases of volumes on the latest Balkan
wars, you ask? But this collection of essays assembled by Raju G.C.
Thomas, and complemented by his own, is something different. Drawing on
his personal background, Thomas ventures, credibly, that what is
described in Yugoslavia Unraveled could have happened to his native
India, too, if it had been a small country and lacked nuclear weapons.
He and the other authors go on to explore the tragedies of
self-determination gone amok, of 'morality as a product of power' on
the part of big interventionist countries, of the destructive role that
'advocacy scholarship' and the new 'government-media-academia-complex'
played in tearing Yugoslavia apart during the 1990s. In short, a
valuable work. —David Binder, New York Times
Yugoslavia Unraveled makes a solid contribution to our understanding of
the Balkan tragedies of the 1990s. The book shows clearly how the
Western powers undermined Yugoslavia' s sovereignty and thereby helped
cause the ensuing bloodshed and chaos. The policies pursued by those
powers have implications far beyond the Balkans and are likely to haunt
the international community for decades to come. Thomas has written a
powerful account that should be must reading for policymakers and
interested laymen alike. —Ted Galen Carpenter,
Cato Institute
Yugoslavia Unraveled should be required reading for the enthusiasts of
humanitarian U.S. interventionism and for the policy-makers who have
prematurely declared the Balkan tragedy a 'success story.' The
contributors to this compendium offer solid evidence that highlights
the inherent dangers of using ethnic stereotyping as a substitute for
the rule of law. —Nikolaos A. Stavrou, Editor of
Mediterranean Quarterly
Yugoslavia Unraveled presents a comprehensive account of a subject many
wish to forget, with all its failures and successes, heroes and
villains. It deserves a wide readership. No student or scholar in
political science should be without it —Damjan de
Krnjevic-Miskovic , The National Interest