This Time We Knew: Western Responses to Genocide in Bosnia

by Thomas Cushman (Editor), Stjepan Mestrovic (Editor)

Overview

This book punctures once and for all common excuses for Western inaction in the face of incontrovertible evidence of the most egregious crimes against humanity to occur in Europe since World War II.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780814723708
Publisher:	New York University Press
Publication date:	10/01/1996
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	296
Sales rank:	231,647
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Thomas Cushman is Professor of Sociology at Wellesley College in Massachusetts and the founder and editor-at-large of the Journal of Human Rights. He has written or edited numerous books, including George Orwell Into the 21st Century, A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq, and This Time We Knew: Western Responses to Genocide in Bosnia (NYU Press).
Stjepan G. Mestrovic is Professor of Sociology at Texas A&M University and the author of numerous books including The Balkanization of the West.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"For people who still are wondering what was happening to the conscience of the West toward Bosnia since 1991, This Time We Knew: Western Responses to Genocide in Bosnia is must reading."

-Universal Press Syndicate,

"This Time We Knew is a work of scholarship that aspires to be an act of conscience—and succeeds in its aspirations."

-Los Angeles Times

Editorial Reviews

This anthology, edited by two sociology professors, purports to criticize the "Western response" to the horrific crimes committed in much of former Yugoslavia, but the rather confusing variety of chosen articles deprives the book of a cogent focus. Many readers would share the book's viewpoint of Serbian responsibility for the genocide, but they might wonder just what connects articles that discuss the "great speculation" concerning the policy impact of pro-Serbian activity in Congress, the "moral relativism" of much Western opinion toward the conflict, and the bias against "basic Islam" repeatedly evident in the Israeli government's policy regarding the conflict. It remains uncertain whether a Western failure to intervene derived from a view of the combatants, a disdain for the region, or some larger social issue. David Riesman's last chapter, however reflective, does not help. On the other hand, Michael Burnett's account of the "bureaucratization of peacekeeping" and the consequences of UN operations in Somalia offers a good criticism of the UN Secretariat's attitude toward the war. Recommended for larger academic libraries and public libraries with good Balkan collections.Zachary T. Irwin, Pennsylvania State Univ., Erie

Library Journal

"This Time We Knew is a work of scholarship that aspires to be an act of conscienceand succeeds in its aspirations."

|Los Angeles Times

"For people who still are wondering what was happening to the conscience of the West toward Bosnia since 1991, This Time We Knew: Western Responses to Genocide in Bosnia is must reading."

Universal Press Syndicate

" This Time We Knew is a work of scholarship that aspires to be an act of conscienceand succeeds in its aspirations."

Los Angeles Times

"For people who still are wondering what was happening to the conscience of the West toward Bosnia since 1991, This Time We Knew: Western Responses to Genocide in Bosnia is must reading."

- Universal Press Syndicate

" This Time We Knew is a work of scholarship that aspires to be an act of conscience—and succeeds in its aspirations."

- Los Angeles Times

From the Publisher