Suchergebnisse

Part I. UNSTAKING VAMPIRES : DESTROYING THE YUGOSLAV NATION AND STATE -- The Use of National Stereotypes in the Wars in Yugoslavia -- Recounting the Dead : The Rediscovery and Redefinition of Wartime Massacres in Late- and Post-Communist Yugoslavia -- The Partition of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1990-93 -- Muslims as "Others" in Serbian and Croatian Politics -- Imagined Communities and Real Victims : Self-Determination and Ethnic Cleansing in Yugoslavia -- PART II. THE POWER OF LABELING : DISCOURSES ON GENOCIDE, ETHNIC CLEANSING & POPULATION TRANSFERS -- Schindler's Fate : Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing and Population Transfers -- Mass Killings and Images of Genocide in Bosnia, 1941-45 and 1992-95 -- Mass Rape and Rape Avoidance in Ethno-National Conflicts : Sexual Violence in Liminalized States -- PART III. HUMANITARIAN HYPOCRISY -- Human Rights Activists and the Civil War in Yugoslavia : The Questionable Morality of Liberal Absolutism -- Humanrightsism : From Moral Critique of Violence to Crusade for Moral Violence -- "Genocide Denial" Laws as Secular Heresy : A Critical Analysis with Reference to Bosnia -- What's Reconciliation Got to Do With It? : The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) as Antiwar Profitee -- PART IV. UN-IMAGINING COMMUNITIES -- "Democracy" Without a Demos? : The Bosnian Constitutional Experiment -- The Proposed 2009 Amendments on the Bosnian Constitution and the Continuing Reinvention of the Square Wheel -- Moral Vision and Impaired Insight : Or, the Imagining of Other Peoples? : Communities in Bosnia -- CODA: REBUILDING THE BALKANS -- From EUphoria to EU-goslavia

In this article I introduce a variety of social, political and economic collectivities to analyze ways in which their interactions are influenced by borders as the territorial delimitations of legal authority, or jurisdictions. The limits of authority within such collectivities are seen in the overlapping grants of authority that impact them. To the extent that borders delineate spheres of legitimate action by governments, they can be defensive of the rights of people within them as well as protective of the rights of governments to impinge on those same rights, or both simultaneously. Borders can thus be constraining of those who cannot easily pass across them, yet simultaneously unconstraining of international actors who may be predatory on those who expect their state to protect them. If we are to understand borders, boundaries and cognate phenomena, we need always to take both sets of relations into account.