The thesis examines Serbian conspiracy culture at the time of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in the spring of 1999. During the war, conspiratorial themes became a regular occurrence in Serbian mainstream media, as well as in pronouncements by the Serbian political establishment.…
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This thesis argues that physical landscapes, from intentional sites of memory to average public spaces, play a foundational role in the formation and continuation of the official politics of memory that underpins Serbian cultural memory and collective identity. Thus, in order to…
Former Yugoslavia dissolved in the 1990s in brutal civil wars and ethnic violence. This was not the first instance of ethnic violence in former Yugoslavia. Similar events happened during the Second World War. This research thesis examines how Croats and Serbs in the 1950s, livin…
This thesis examines how madness has been used in post-Yugoslav cinemas to facilitate thinking about experiences of the break-up of the SFRY throughout the 1990s and 2000s, its consequences and implications for the future. The study conceptualises post-Yugoslav film cultures as …
This study seeks to examine the influence of patriarchal forces, at both the local and global level, that have historically resulted in the lack of recognition of gender-specific crimes committed during and after armed conflict. By incorporating the testimonies of Bosnian, Croat…
Nationalism and national identity were alien concepts to the Ottoman Empire where the millet system classified individuals in terms of their confessional communities. In the Ottoman Balkans, the Greek-Orthodox millet was the dominant one. Under the authority of the Ecumenical Pa…
This dissertation investigates the way in which institutions shape the contours of contemporary state violence. It does so by asking why Serbia supported “ethnic cleansing” in Bosnia during 1992, the first year of Bosnia's independence, while Israel engaged in a policy of “ethni…
This study examines coercive peacemaking in the former Yugoslavia: Croatia (1991–1995), Bosnia-Herzegovina (1992–present), and Kosovo (1999). Coercive peacemaking is a form of conflict management that seeks to impose a peaceful conflict resolution in disregard for disputants' wi…
This study identifies and analyzes the key conditions for and causes of NATO's success rate in conducting multinational military peace-enforcement interventions in Bosnia and Kosovo. As its baseline it uses the UNPROFOR operation in Bosnia. Subsequently, it evaluates the IFOR/SF…
The dissertation examines international and interethnic relations among peoples of or from the former Yugoslavia as they occur and are mediated in tambura music. This genre-crossing performance practice centers on the lute-like tambura, which Croats in Southeast Europe, Central …
In the aftermath of the break-up of the former Yugoslavia, the new Western Balkans states have found themselves in transition from socialist regimes to capitalist economy and representative democracy. European Union membership has became virtually synonymous with this transition…
A unique moment in Sephardic music is emerging in the Republic of Serbia. Since 2000, a small but vibrant Sephardic music scene has been formed through the efforts of a small group of individuals. The scene keeps alive a repertoire that has survived many upheavals: the Holocaust…
Human rights advocates have championed the establishment of a regime of international legal accountability for grave violations of human rights, including genocide. Despite recent advances in establishing a regime of responsibility for individuals, when the International Court o…
This dissertation explores how popular domestic beliefs regarding the meaning and value of disputed lands contribute to the protraction and resolution of international territorial conflict. Using comparative historical analysis and artefactual field experiments, I find in Israel…
A study on sexual violence published by Kosovo Women's Network (Wareham, 2000) emphasized the difficulty in gathering data from the women directly affected by this type of violence. It pointed out that women remain reluctant to speak out and become engaged. In January 2000, the …
This dissertation studies a vital yet neglected aspect of multilateral economic sanctions: how are sanctions to be monitored once imposed? The bulk of the academic and policy literature on sanctions assesses sanctions effectiveness without evaluating efforts at monitoring their …
This dissertation examines the dismantling of socialism and the resulting conflict in Yugoslavia from a gender perspective. It explores the experiences of women in the process of the violent nation-state building in the region, and how their lives and status were affected. The r…
My research examines how international organizations (state and non-state actors) understand and respond to human rights violations. How could the international community react to Rwanda and Kosovo so differently? In Rwanda, peacekeepers were pulled back and in 100 days over 800…
On 20th July 2001, the Council Directive 2001/55/EC on minimum standards for giving temporary protection in the event of a mass influx of displaced persons and on measures promoting a balance of efforts between Member States in receiving such persons and bearing the consequences…