Readings and Videos Recommended for Course Preparation

Books

• Bose, Sumantra. Bosnia after Dayton: Nationalist Partition and International Intervention, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002
• Bougarel, Xavier. "Bosnia and Hercegovina  State and Communitarianism," in David Dyker and Ivan Vejvoda, (eds), Yugoslavia and After, London: Longman, 1996.
• Bunce, Valerie.  Subversive Institutions:  The Design and Destruction of State Socialism and the State.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999
• Cousens, Elizabeth M. "Missed Opportunities to Overcompensation: Implementing the Dayton Agreement on Bosnia," in Stedman, Stephen et al., eds., Ending Civil Wars, Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2002, pp. 531-3; 536-61.
• Gagnon, V.P. Jr.  "The Myth of Ethnic War"  Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004.
• Gordy, Eric The Culture of Power in Serbia, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999.
• Jelavich, Barbara.  History of the Balkans: Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
• Mazower, Mark. The Balkans. A Short History. New York: A Modern Library Chronicles, 2000.
• Halpern, Joel M. and David A. Kideckel, eds., Neighbors at War, University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000.
• Stokes, Gale. "The Devil's Finger: The Disintegration of Yugoslavia," in The Walls Came Tumbling Down, pp. 218-52.
• Tesanovic, Jasmina. The Dairy of a Political Idiot: Normal Life in Belgrade, San Francisco: Midnight Editions, 2000
• Woodward, Susan. Balkan Tragedy, Washington D.C.:  The Brookings Institution, 1996.

Recommended Articles

• Bringa, Tone, "Nationality Categories, National Identification and Identity Formation in "Multinational" Bosnia, Anthropology of East Europe Review, Vol. 11, Nos. 1-2, 1993, pp. 69-76.
• Bunce, Valerie, "Subversive Institutions: The End of the soviet State in Comparative Perspective," Post-Soviet Affairs, 14; 4 1998, pp. 323-54.
• Cohen, Lenard, "Prelates and Politicians in Bosnia: The Role of Religion in Nationalist Mobilisation," Nationalities Papers, Vol. 25, No. 3, 1997, pp. 481-499
• Conference on Yugoslavia Arbitration Commission, "Opinions on questions arising from the dissolution of Yugoslavia," 1992.
• Denich, Bette, "Dismembering Yugoslavia: nationalist ideologies and the symbolic revival of genocide," American Ethnologist, Vol. 21, No. 2, 1994, pp. 367-390.
• Gagnon, V.P. Jr, "Ethnic Nationalism and International Conflict: The Case of Serbia," International Security, Vol. 19, No. 3; 1994/5, pp. 130-66.
• Hayden, Robert.  Imagined Communities and Real Victims: Self-Determination and Ethnic Cleansing in Yugoslavia, American Ethnologist, Vol 23, No. 4 (November 1996), 783-801.
• Hodson, Randy, D. Sekulić, G. Massey, "National Tolerance in the Former Yugoslavia," American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 99, No. 6, May 1994, pp. 1534-1558.
• Oberschall, Anthony, "The Manipulation of Ethnicity: From Ethnic Cooperation to Violence and War in Yugoslavia," Ethnic and Racial Studies, 23 (November 2000), 982-1001.
• Snyder, Jack and Karen Ballentine, "Nationalism and the Marketplace of Ideas," International Security, 21:2 (Autumn 1996), 5-40
• Strohmeyer, Hansjorg, "Collapse and Reconstruction of a Judicial System: The United Nations Missions in Kosovo and East Timor," American Journal of International Law, 95:1 (January 2001), 46-63.
• United Nations Security Council, "The rule of law and transitional justice in conflict and post-conflict societies," S/2004/616, 24 August 2004

Other Articles

We have collected other articles that may be interesting, but we have not reviewed all of these in depth

• Andreas, Peter. "Criminalized Legacies of War: The Clandestine Political Economy of the Western Balkans," Problems of Post-Communism, vol. 51, no. 3, May/June 2004, pp. 3-9.
• Bakić-Hayden, Milica and Robert M. Hayden, Orientalist Variations on the Theme 'Balkans': Symbolic geography in Recent Yugoslav Cultural Politics. In: Slavic Review. Vol. 51 (1) 1992, pp. 1-15.
• Bax, Mart, "Warlords, priests and the politics of ethnic cleansing: a case-study from rural Bosnia Hercegovnia, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 23:1, January 2000, pp. 16-36.
• Bellamy, Alex, "The Catholic Church and Croatia's Two Transitions,"  Religion, State & Society, Vol. 30, No. 1, 2002, pp.45-61.
• Bieber, Florian, "After Dayton, Dayton? The Evolution of an Unpopular Peace," Ethnopolitics, Vol. 5, No. 1, 15-31, March 2006.
• Bozic, Gordana, "Reeducating the Hearts of Bosnian Students: An Essay on Some Aspects of Education in Bosnia and Herzegovina," East European Politics and Societies, Vol. 20, No. 2, pages 319-342.
• Caspersen, Nina. "Good Fences Make Good Neighbours? A Comparison of Conflict-Regulation Strategies in Postwar Bosnia," Journal of Peace Research, vol. 41, no. 5, 2004, pp. 569-588.
• Chandler, David. "Building Trust in Public Institutions? Good Governance and Anti-corruption in Bosnia-Herzegovina," Ethnopolitics, Vol. 5, No. 1, 85-99, March 2006.
• Corpora, Christopher A., "The Untouchables: Former Yugoslavia's Clandestine Political Economy," Problems of Post-Communism, vol. 51, no. 3, May/June 2004, pp. 61-68.
• Everly, Rebecca, "Complex Public Power Regulation in Bosnia and Herzegovina after the Dayton Peace Agreement," Ethnopolitics, Vol. 5, No. 1, 33-48, March 2006.
• Gow, James. "The ICTY, War Crimes Enforcement and Dayton: The Ghost in the Machine," Ethnopolitics, Vol. 5, No. 1, 49-65, March 2006.
• Hozic, Aida, "Between the Cracks: Balkan Cigarette Smuggling," Problems of Post-Communism, vol. 51, no. 3, May/June 2004, pp. 35-44.
• Jakelic, Slavica, "Religion, Collective Identity, and Violence in Bosnia and Hercegovina," The Hedgehog Review, Spring 2004, pp. 51-70.
• Levy, Jacob, "The Multiculturalism of Fear" Chapter 1, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000
• Luhmann, Niklas, "Deconstruction as Second-Order Observing," New Literary History. Vol. 24 (4) 1993, pp. 763-782.
• Luhmann, Niklas, "The Paradoxy of Observing Systems," Cultural Critique. Vol. 31, (The Politics of Systems and Environments, Part II.) 1995, pp. 37-55.
• Nikolic-Ristanovic, Vesna, "Sexual violence," Women, Violence and War: Wartime Victimization of Refugees in the Balkans, Vesna Nikolic-Ristanovic, Ed., Budapest: Central European University Press, 2000, pp. 41-61.
• Pastor, Robert, "The Role of Electoral Administration in Democratic Transitions: Implications for Policy and Research," Democratization Vol. 6, No. 4, Winter 1999, pp. 1-27.
• Perica, Vjekoslav, "Interfaith Dialogue versus Recent Hatred: Serbian

  Orthodoxy and Croatian Catholicism from the Second Vatican Council to the Yugoslav War, 1965-1992," Religion, State & Society, Vol. 29, No. 1, 2001, pp.40-66.

• Sekulic, Dusko, Garth Massey and Randy Hodson, "Ethnic intolerance and ethnic conflict in the dissolution of Yugoslavia," Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 29 No. 5 September 2006 pp. 797-827.
• Seroka, James A. "Prospects for Stability in Post-Tito Yugoslavia," Slavic Review, 37:2, June 1978, pp. 268-282.
• Soberg, Matthew, "Empowering Local Elites in Bosnia and Hercegovina: The Dayton Decade,"  Problems of Post-Communism, vol. 51, no. 3, May/June 2004, pp. 44-58.
• Stokes, Gale.  "From Nation to Minority: Serbs in Croatia and Bosnia at the Outbreak of the Yugoslav Wars," Problems of Post-Communism, vol. 52, no. 6, November/December 2005, pp. 3-20.
• Tzifakis, Nikolaos, Charalambos Tsardanidis, "Economic Reconstruction of Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Lost Decade," Ethnopolitics, Vol. 5, No. 1, 67-84, March 2006.

  Weller, Marc and Stefan Wolff, "Bosnia and Herzegovina Ten Years after Dayton: Lessons for Internationalized State Building," Ethnopolitics, Vol. 5, No. 1, 1-13, March 2006.

Videos

• Christie, Debie and Bringa, Tone, directors, We Are All Neighbors, a documentary film, Grenada: Granada Television, 1993. 
• Bringa, Tone.  Returning Home: Revival of a Bosnian Village.  Saga Film and Video Production, Sarajevo 2001
• Pepe Danquart and Mirjam Quinte, Nach Saison, BRD 1997.

Past course programs

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