Western Intervention in the Balkans: The Strategic Use of Emotion in ConflictCambridge University Press, 2011 M09 30 Conflicts involve powerful experiences. The residue of these experiences is captured by the concept and language of emotion. Indiscriminate killing creates fear; targeted violence produces anger and a desire for vengeance; political status reversals spawn resentment; cultural prejudices sustain ethnic contempt. These emotions can become resources for political entrepreneurs. A broad range of Western interventions are based on a view of human nature as narrowly rational. Correspondingly, intervention policy generally aims to alter material incentives ('sticks and carrots') to influence behavior. In response, poorer and weaker actors who wish to block or change this Western implemented 'game' use emotions as resources. This book examines the strategic use of emotion in the conflicts and interventions occurring in the Western Balkans over a twenty-year period. The book concentrates on the conflicts among Albanian and Slavic populations (Kosovo, Montenegro, Macedonia, South Serbia), along with some comparisons to Bosnia. |
Contents
2 Emotions as Resources | 23 |
3 The Strategic Use of Emotions I | 52 |
4 Intervention Games | 64 |
5 The Strategic Use of Emotions II | 80 |
6 The Strategic Use of Emotions III | 97 |
part 2 Cases and Tests | 105 |
8 The Case of the Roma in Kosovo | 130 |
9 Background to Kosovo | 137 |
13 Kosovo Conclusions | 193 |
14 South Serbia | 203 |
15 Macedonia | 222 |
16 Bosnia | 243 |
17 Montenegro | 269 |
18 Conclusion | 290 |
Appendix A A Note on Names | 301 |
Appendix B Alternative Arguments | 302 |
10 Waiting for the West | 147 |
11 Kosovo Intervention Games I | 164 |
12 Kosovo Intervention Games II | 184 |
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Common terms and phrases
action tendency Albanian political Albanian population anger assurance game Basic Game Belgrade belief bombing Bosnia boycott Brcko Bujanovac chapter chicken game choice civilians cognitive conflict cooperation create Croatia Croats cultural schema Dayton Accord discussed dominance economic emotion resources escalation ethnic cleansing ethnic Macedonians ethnic stigma Europe European fear figures forces hatred Ibar River identity independence indiscriminate violence individuals institutions intermarriage International Crisis Group intervention game issues KFOR killing Kosovo leaders level of violence Milosevic Mitrovica Montenegro multiethnic Muslims mutual defection nationalist NATO nonviolent numbers Ohrid one’s opponent outcome parallel society parties payoff Peace percent play players police political actors political entrepreneurs Prediction Presevo Presevo Valley provocations referendum regime region Republic resentment riots Roma Rugova Serbian situation social South Serbia specific spoilers status reversal strategy structural targets theory UCPMB University Press UNMIK West West’s Western Balkans Western intervention Yugoslav Yugoslavia