The United States and the international community intervened in a number of internal conflicts throughout the 1990s, generally justifying their actions on humanitarian grounds. In most cases, external military intervention largely halted the fighting and allowed humanitarian ass…
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Scholars have traditionally looked at the Trieste controversy as an early indicator of Cold War tensions between the United States and Soviet Union. Consequently, this approach often regulates the role of local actors and perspectives as subordinate to the desires of larger powe…
V disertaciji so opisani vzroki za nastanek vojn na območju nekdanje Jugoslavije, ki jo danes poznamo pod nazivom Zahodni Balkan in dejavniki, ki so vplivali na razvoj sovražnosti pred vojnami in posledice. Mednarodna skupnost se je reševanja predvojnih problemov lotevala z vnap…
Military coercion is of growing importance to U.S. national security. America's considerable advantages in military technology, and its reluctance to incur casualties in its missions abroad, point towards the continuing appeal of coercive strategies as a low-cost means of achiev…
Between September 1991 and April 1992, twenty new states appeared on the world scene. Fifteen countries emerged from the USSR; five from Yugoslavia. By the end of 1992, Czechoslovakia split into two more new states. The last time the international community experienced such a bu…
Given the tendency of dominant powers to intervene on behalf of aggrieved groups when their hegemonic interests are at stake, it is important to assess the conditions under which the dominant powers of the international community should recognize an ethnic group's demand for cul…
This study examines contemporary ethnic politics cross-nationally and in three case studies: France, Malaysia, and Yugoslavia. The case studies conclude that although politicized ethnicity manifests behaviors which revolve about language, religious, and economic issues, ethnic p…
Gypsy musicians in Kosovo, the multi-ethnic province of former Yugoslavia, interact with all ethnic groups in the province. This musical interaction is presented through the analogy of a trade. Gypsy musicians acquire repertory from various sources, transform it, and sell it to …
This study is the first complete analysis of social upheaval in Yugoslavia in the 1980s, especially on the groundswell of organized labor resistance that emerged in resistance to rapid economic transformation. This study introduces a new data source on "events of labor unrest" (…
Interview transcripts of 11 Finnish CIVPOL officers were analyzed for themes. These interviews had been conducted in the war zones of Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina during 1994 and 1995. The review of psychological literature found an absence of understanding about two important…
This dissertation tells the story of Sarajevo during the Second World War. Beginning with a sketch of the city on the eve of war—when Muslims, Catholics, Orthodox Serbs, and Jews lived and worked together—it traces how these communities interacted with one another through variou…