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Editor Raju G. C. Thomas and contributors examine underlying issues regarding the sources of religious nationalism and ethnic conflict, the territorial integrity and sovereignty of states, and the principle of self-determination and the right of secession from an existing state.
List of contents
Part 1 Prologue: Making War, Peace and History
Part 2 Nations, States and Nationalism
Chapter 3 Sovereignty, Self-Determination, Secession: Principles and Practice
Chapter 4 The Future of Nationalisms
Chapter 5 Religion and War: Fault Lines in the Balkan Enigma
Chapter 6 Transnational Causes of Genocide: Or How the West Inadvertantly Exacerbates Ethnic Conflict
Chapter 7 Economic Aspects of Yugoslavia's Disintegration
Chapter 8 International Policy in Southeastern Europe: A Diagnosis
Part 9 Wars, War Crimes and International Law
Chapter 10 Wars, Humanitarian Intervention and International Law: Perceptions and Reality
Chapter 11 The Use of Refugees as Political and Military Weapons in the Kosovo Conflict
Chapter 12 Propoganda System One: From Diem and Abrenz to Milosevic
Chapter 13 Biased "Justice:" Human Rights and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
Chapter 14 Illegal Wars, Collateral Damage and International Criminal Law
Chapter 15 "Intervention in Ethnic Civil Wars and Exit Strategies: Lessons from South Asia"
16 Reflections on the Yugoslav Wars: A Peacekeeper's Perspective
About the author
Raju G. C. Thomas is the Allis Chalmers Professor of International Affairs at Marquette University. He has served as Visiting Fellow at Harvard University, UCLA, MIT, the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author, editor, or co-editor of a dozen books, including
The Great Power Triangle and Asian Security (Lexington Books, 1982).
