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GLOBAL CRIME
Political Opportunities and Local Contingencies in Mass Crime
Participation: Personal Experiences by Former Serbian Militiamen
Samuel Tanner |
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Participation in mass
crime is often approached from a top-down perspective that centralizes the actions of the
masses under the order of elites and leaders. While there is some evidence to support this
approach, a more complete assessment of |
participation in
mass crime must also consider the grassroots contingencies that unite the collective
motivation and capacity that induce such actions. Such a bottoms-up approach is developed
in this article with... |
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ON THE OUTLINES OF THE CRISIS
OF YUGOSLAVIA, 1985-1995
Ton Zwaan
Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
University of Amsterdam/Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Yugoslavia, roughly seven times the size of the Netherlands, about half
the size of France, and formerly inhabited by approximately 24 million people, no longer
exists. After an in many ways difficult and turbulent development of less than 75 years as
a relatively autonomous state-society, it has definitively disintegrated in only a few
years. The process of disintegration did not start exactly in 1985, since important roots
of it stretched back to earlier times, nor was the process finished in 1995 - in fact it
is still going on at present, with Bosnia's future highly uncertain, the future of Kosovo
undecided, the conflicts in Macedonia largely unresolved, and a probable split between... |
KOSOVO
NEITHER EU NOR KOSOVO
01/20/2008, HCHRS
The ending of Kosovo negotiations under the auspices of the
"Troika", and the decision of the international community not to further
postpone the resolution of the status of Kosovo after their failiure is not only
unaccepted by the political elite in Serbia, but is used as an excuse for blocking the
accelerated accession to the European Union. Namely, in mid-December, when the attempt
between Belgrade and Pristina to reach an agreeable solution was formally ended, Brussels
has signalled Belgrade that, as early as January 2008, the Stabilization and Association
Agreement (SAA) could be signed, regardless of the fact that Serbia has practically
suspended cooperation with the Hague Tribunal. This European benevolence has caused a
reversed effect in Serbia... |
SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH
THE SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH AND THE NEW SERBIAN IDENTITY:
Study
01/31/2006 , HCHRS
At the turn of the penultimate decade of the 20th century to the last,
the world was shocked by the (out-of-court) pronouncement of the death verdict for an
artist, that is, an author by the leader of a theocratic regime, on the grounds that his
book insulted one religion or, to be more exact, Islam and all Muslims. Naturally, it is
the question of the famous Rushdie affair. According to the leader of the Iranian
revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini, the novel "Satanic Verses" by Salman Rushdie was
blasphemous and the author deserved to be sentenced to death by a fatwa. This case - which
has not been closed to this day - demonstrated in a radical way the seriousness and
complexity of the... |
