Contents

 

Acknowledgments

One

Introduction

 

Thomas Cushman and Stjepan G. Meštrović

Two

The Complicity of Serbian Intellectuals in Genocide in the 1990s

 

Philip J. Cohen

Three

Bosnia: The Lessons of History?

 

Brendan Simms

Four

No Pity for Sarajevo; The West’s Serbianization; When the West Stands In for the Dead

 

Jean Baudrillard

Five

Israel and the War in Bosnia

 

Daniel Kofman

Six

The Politics of Indifference at the United Nations and Genocide in Rwanda and Bosnia

 

Michael N. Barnett

Seven

The West Side Story of the Collapse of Yugoslavia and the Wars in Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina

 

Slaven Letica

Eight

Serbia’s War Lobby: Diaspora Groups and Western Elites

 

Brad K. Blitz

Nine

Moral Relativism and Equidistance in British Attitudes to the War in the Former Yugoslavia

 

Daniele Conversi

Ten

The Former Yugoslavia, the End of the Nuremberg Era, and the New Barbarism

 

James J. Sadkovich

Eleven

War and Ethnic Identity in Eastern Europe: Does the Post-Yugoslav Crisis Portend Wider Chaos?

 

Liah Greenfeld

Twelve

The Anti-Genocide Movement on American College Campuses: A Growing Response to the Balkan War

 

Sheri Fink

Thirteen

Western Responses to the Current Balkan War

 

David Riesman

Appendix 1

A Definition of Genocide

Appendix 2

Text of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

Appendix 3

Indictments by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia

 

Contributors

 

Index