Confronting the Yugoslav Controversies: A Scholars' Initiative

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Charles Ingrao, Thomas A. Emmert
Purdue University Press, 15. pro 2012. - Broj stranica: 492
It has been two decades since Yugoslavia fell apart. The brutal conflicts that followed its dissolution are over, but the legacy of the tragedy continues to unsettle the region. Reconciliation is a long and difficult process that necessitates a willingness to work together openly and objectively in confronting the past. Over the past ten years the Scholars' Initiative has assembled an international consortium of historians, social scientists, and jurists to examine the salient controversies that still divide the peoples of former Yugoslavia. The findings of its eleven research teams represent a direct assault on the proprietary narratives and interpretations that nationalist politicians and media have impressed on mass culture in each of the successor states. Given gaps in the historical record and the existence of sometimes contradictory evidence, this volume does not pretend to resolve all of the outstanding issues. Nevertheless, this second edition incorporates new evidence and major developments that have taken place in the region since the first edition went to press. At the heart of this project has always been the insistence of the authors that they would continue to reconsider their analyses and conclusions based on credible new evidence. Thus, in this second edition, the work of the Scholars' Initiative continues. The broadly conceived synthesis will assist scholars, public officials, and the people they represent both in acknowledging inconvenient facts and in discrediting widely held myths that inform popular attitudes and the electoral success of nationalist politicians who profit from them. Rather than rely on special pleading and appeals to patriotism that have no place in scholarship, the volume vests its credibility in the scientific credentials of its investigators, the transparent impartiality of its methodology, and an absolute commitment to soliciting and examining evidence presented by all sides.
 

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Introduction
1
Kosovo under Autonomy 19741990
49
Independence and the Fate of Minorities 19911992
83
Ethnic Cleansing and War Crimes 19911995
115
The International Community and the FRYBelligerents 19891997
153
Safe Areas
201
The War in Croatia 19911995
231
Kosovo under the Milošević Regime
273
The War in Kosovo 19981999
303
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
347
Living Together or Hating Each Other?
391
Appendix
425
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O autoru (2012)

Charles Ingrao is Professor of History at Purdue University. He has authored or edited many books on central Europe. He is founding editor of H-Net's HABSBURG discussion group and has served as editor of The Austrian History Yearbook (1997-2006). He is presently completing a book (with Bruce Pauley) on ethnic conflict in central Europe and directs the Scholars' Initiative, an international consortium of scholars dedicated to confronting the controversies of the recent Yugoslav wars.

Tom Emmert joined the Gustavus History Department in 1973. He teaches the European history survey, as well as courses on both Imperial and modern Russia, the Ottoman Empire, 19th century European intellectual and cultural movements, and Balkan nationalism. He is currently teaching a new seminar on Stalin. Emmert received his BA from St. Olaf in 1967, and his MA and PhD from Stanford University in 1970 and 1973 respectively.

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