Between the Round Table and the Waiting Room: Scholarship on War and Peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo after the ‘Post-Cold War’
Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: The Yugoslav wars of the 1990s are a turning point in the history of diplomacy and international relations between the end of the Cold War and the start of the War on Terror.European politicians' failure to exert enough influence or moral leadership to realise their hopes of a new diplomatic role for European powers made the wars in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina a sad counterpoint to celebrations of German reunification and the Maastricht Treaty in 1990-2. 1 A generation of junior US diplomats in the State Department were marked by their inability to persuade superiors in 1992-5 that the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) was committing genocide in Bosnia, 2 and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) air strikes against Serbia and Montenegro during the Kosovo War were what compelled the 1 Josip Glaurdić, The Hour of Europe: Western Powers and the Breakup of Yugoslavia (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011), 1.This review refers to 'Bosnia-Herzegovina' as 'Bosnia' for ease of reading, though specialist literature would usually still refer to 'Bosnia-Herzegovina' or the abbreviation 'BiH'.2 Samantha Power, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide (London: Harper Perennial, 2003), 314.
Source: Contemporary European History
Author: Catherine Baker
Institution: University of Hull
Language: English
Subfield: Cultural Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2914222797