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…
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Military cooperation between countries is multi-layered and complex. From one perspective it is about enhancing security and defense, arms trading, promotion of new technologies and joint actions against a common enemy. From another viewpoint, there is always a danger of misuse,…
Architectural destruction is often perceived as inevitable collateral damage during modern conflict, but a major facet of the Kosovo War of 1998-9 and its aftermath was the deliberate targeting and demolition of architectural heritage on a massive scale. Both Serbian and Kosovar…
Mladen Stilinović’s (1947-2016) text “In Praise of Laziness” (1993) makes seemingly absurd claims about the relationship between art and laziness which are most often interpreted as political commentary in his typically cynical brand of humor. While this humor is indeed a consis…
At the end of WW II, the Yugoslav state passed judgment on the ethnic-German minorities residing in diaspora. This postwar verdict, without any official trail, labeled them, regardless of their age or gender, as guilty of Nazi war crimes. As a way of punishment between 1945-1949…
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.…
This dissertation is a twentieth-century social history of the relationship between mixed marriage and national identity in Bosnia-Herzegovina. More precisely, it examines the ways in which different types of elites--political, religious and social--operating under different reg…
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 …
My dissertation project examines the gradual phases of recontextualizing, folklorizing, heritagizing, and choreographing dance in Macedonia, Serbia, and Croatia, and in the Former Yugoslavia in general. In order to demonstrate how dance becomes an intangible cultural heritage, I…
The purpose of this thesis is to draw some parallels between the largely ignored, and usually vilified national cultures of the countries making up the so-called “socialist bloc” and to ask in what way the common cultural practices adopted by a large number of them during the ha…
Paul Sifler, a Slovenian-American composer, teacher, and organist was employed in both New York City and Hollywood, California. He earned degrees from the Chicago Conservatory and spent the majority of his career at St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Hollywood and Temple Sinai, Glenda…
This dissertation reviews the Kingdom of Yugoslavia’s attempt to instill “Yugoslav” national consciousness in its overseas population of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, as well as resistance to that same project, collectively referred to as a “Yugoslav diaspora.” Diaspora is treate…
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…
In the early 1990s, the country of Bosnia and Herzegovina endured one of the most devastating conflicts in European history since World War II, including a campaign of genocide by the aggressor. The nation is now twenty years removed from the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreemen…
Within the generally under-researched topic of civil war, research on the question of the causes of civil war is in a state of confusion. This is due primarily to the persistence of a false dichotomy between material and social-psychological theories, as well as to a tendency to…
In the 10 years since the break-up of the former Yugoslavia, numerous accounts examined the events leading to the ultimate dissolution and eruption of ethnic violence in this region. The majority of these accounts focused mainly on issues of nationalism. However, other issues, s…
This analysis evaluates potential strategies for military operations to halt mass atrocities, also known as Mass Atrocity Response Operations (MARO). Examining the strategy and outcomes of six U.S. humanitarian interventions in Iraq, Somalia and the former Yugoslavia, the analys…
Resolving ethnic conflicts is no easy task. In the 1990s, civil wars engulfed Somalia, Mozambique, Rwanda, Cambodia, Yugoslavia...the list goes on. In the Balkans, the disintegration of Josip Tito's pan-Slavic dream destabilized the security of the region and relations between t…
This thesis is an exposition on the British traveller Mary Edith Durham and her various activities in the Balkans from 1900 to 1914. Durham earned a reputation as an ethnographer, traveller, reporter, political activist and relief worker. First, the thesis documents her experien…