Mapping European security after Kosovo
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Mapping European security after Kosovo
Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2002
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Includes bibliographical references
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- Kosovo and the end of the legitimate warring state / Iver B. Neumann
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Description
In the story of post-Cold War conceptual confusion, the war in and over Kosovo stands out as a particularly interesting episode. This book provides new and stimulating perspectives on how Kosovo has shaped the new Europe. It breaks down traditional assumptions in the field of security studies by sidelining the theoretical worldview that underlies mainstream strategic thinking on recent events in Kosovo. The book offers a conceptual overview of the Kosovo debate, placing these events in the context of globalisation, European integration and the discourse of modernity and its aftermath. It then examines Kosovo's impact on the idea of war. One of the great paradoxes of the war in Kosovo was that it was not just one campaign but two: there was the ethnic cleansing campaign in Kosovo and the allied bombing campaign against targets in Kosovo and all over Serbia. Serbia's killing of Kosovo has set the parameters of the Balkanisation-integration nexus, offering 'Europe' (and the West in general) a unique opportunity to suggest itself as the strong centre that keeps the margins from running away. Next, it investigates 'Kosovo' as a product of the decay of modern institutions and discourses like sovereignty, statehood, the warring state or the United Nations system. 'Kosovo' has introduced new overtones into the European Weltanschauung and the ways in which 'Europe' asserts itself as an independent power discourse in a globalising world: increasingly diffident, looking for firm foundations in the conceptual void of the turn of the century. -- .
Table of Contents
Preface: Kosovo and the outlines of Europe's New Order - Sergel Medvedev & Peter van Ham 1. Kosovo: a European fin de siecle - Sergei Medvedev 2. Simulating European security: Kosovo and the Balkanisation/integration nexus - Peter van Ham 3. Kosovo and the end of war - Pertti Joenniemi 4. Kosovo and the end of the legitimate warring state - Iver B. Neumann 5. Kosovo and the end of the United Nations? - Heikki Patomaki 6. Kosovo and the politics of representation - Maja Zehfuss 7. "vvv.nato.int.": Virtuousness, virtuality and virtuosity in NATO's representation of the Kosovo campaign - Andreas Behnke 8. Of models and monsters: Language games in the Kosovo war - Mika Aaltola 9. "War is never civilised": Civilisation, civil society and the Kosovo war - Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen 10. Chechnya and Kosovo: Reflections in a distorting mirror - Christoph Zurcher
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