Bombs for Peace : NATO's Humanitarian War on Yugoslavia /
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| Author / Creator: | Szamuely, George, author. |
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| Imprint: | Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2013] ©2013. |
| Description: | 611 pages ; 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10043268 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. Yugoslavia: Destroying States for Fun and for Profit Origins of the Crisis
- Targeting the Yugoslav federal government
- Playing to the western audience
- Slovenia and Croatia make their move
- Ineffectuality runs rampant
- The United States intervenes
- The Mesic issue
- The 'hour of Europe'
- Meeting at Brioni
- Inventing a new doctrine
- Bosnia heads toward the precipice
- Sabotaging the SFRY presidency
- Pressure for recognition
- The Carrington Plan
- The non-arbitration commission
- The Badinter maneuvers
- Badinter v. Bosnia
- The E.C. recognitions
- Sabotaging a last-ditch peace effort
- Enter Cyrus Vance
- 2. In Search of the Good War Bosnia: April 1992 to May 1993
- The Greater Serbia thesis
- Reversing cause and effect
- The media mobilize
- Celebrating the victim
- The Izetbegovic myth
- Demonizing the JNA
- Assigning blame for the carnage
- Meting out punishment
- The London Conference
- The U.N.-NATO partnership
- Exit Carrington, enter Owen
- The Karadjordjevo Conspiracy
- New opportunity for NATO
- 3. Peacemaking v. Humanitarianism Bosnia and Croatia: June 1993 to December 1995
- Bombing threats renewed
- To ensure failure
- The demise of Owen-Stoltenberg
- The Muslim-Croat alliance
- The Contact Group
- The Contact Group plan
- Isolating Bosnia's Serbs
- The end of the ceasefire
- Rapid reaction
- Hijacking the U.N.
- Operation Deliberate Force
- Dayton
- Realpolitik in Croatia
- Finishing off the Vance Plan
- Operation Flash
- Operation Storm
- The Babic maneuver
- 4. Humanitarianism Fulfilled Bosnia's Unsafe Areas
- The origins of the Srebrenica crisis
- The demilitarization agreement
- Extending the "safe areas"
- UNPROFORS quagmire
- The Gorazde crisis
- Bihac
- The safe areas and the end of the ceasefire
- Srebrenica endgame
- The genocide that wasn't
- The Srebrenica narrative enshrined
- 5. Kosovo: The Denial of Sovereignty
- Bosnia redux
- Overturning Westphalia
- Serbia and Kosovo
- Serbia and Albania
- Return of the Contact Group
- The ICTY joins the fray
- Belgrade in the crosshairs
- Alliance with the KLA
- The MiloZ¿evic-Holbrooke agreement
- 6. Kosovo: The set-up
- Enter Mr. Walker
- The Naumann-Clark Mission
- The return of the KLA
- War fever and the ICTY
- Fraudulent evenhandedness
- Racak and Walker
- The Racak case
- The Rambouillet set-up
- The U.S. blueprint
- The Serbs try to use guile
- Yugoslavia's choice: NATO or bombs
- 7. Kosovo: Standing up to the Yugoslav Goliath
- NATO'S propaganda blitz
- Massaging the numbers
- NATO'S miscalculations
- NATO'S explanatory model
- No claim too absurd
- NATO'S 50th birthday bash
- Operation Horseshoe
- Scaling genocide down
- The Appendix B disclosure
- The go-betweens
- Plaudits and recriminations
- Conclusions: Ensuring Success by Lowering Standards
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index