Mapping European Security After KosovoPeter Van Ham, Sergei Medvedev Manchester University Press, 2002 M10 25 - 197 pages 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 contributors challenge the epistemological definition of the Kosovo conflict, arguing that we should not only be concerned with the 'Kosovo out there', but also with the debate about what counts as security, and how our definition of security is shaped by various power and knowledge interests in Kosovo. |
Contents
a European fin de siècle | 15 |
Kosovo and the Balkanisation | 32 |
Kosovo and the end of | 48 |
Kosovo and the end of the legitimate warring state | 66 |
Kosovo and the end of the United Nations? | 82 |
66 | 104 |
NATOs representation of the Kosovo campaign | 126 |
language games in the Kosovo | 145 |
civilisation civil society and | 162 |
reflections in a distorting mirror | 179 |
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