TY  - BOOK
AU  - Caspersen,Nina
TI  - Contested Nationalism: Serb Elite Rivalry in Croatia and Bosnia in the 1990s 
T2  - Ethnopolitics
SN  - 9781845457266
AV  - DR1524.S47 
U1  - 320.5409497109/049 22/eng
PY  - 2010///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Elite (Social sciences)
KW  - Bosnia and Herzegovina
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Croatia
KW  - Nationalism
KW  - Serbs
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Yugoslav War, 1991-1995
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Peace and Conflict Studies, Anthropology (General)
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES --; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS --; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --; INTRODUCTION --; CHAPTER ONE Ethnic Elites and Internal Competition --; CHAPTER TWO Conflict and War in Croatia and Bosnia --; CHAPTER THREE Prewar Croatia: Ethnification and Radicalization --; CHAPTER FOUR Prewar Bosnia: Cohesive, Radicalizing Nationalists --; CHAPTER FIVE Wartime Croatia: Disunity Did Not Save the Serbs --; CHAPTER SIX Wartime Bosnia: Divided We Stand --; CHAPTER SEVEN Warlords, Spoilers and Moderates --; CHAPTER EIGHT Conclusion: Contested Nationalism --; REFERENCES --; INDEX; restricted access
N2  - "Only unity saves the Serbs" is the famous call for unity in the Serb nationalist doctrine. But even though this doctrine was ideologically adhered to by most of the Serb leaders in Croatia and Bosnia, disunity characterized Serb politics during the Yugoslav disintegration and war. Nationalism was contested and nationalist claims to homogeneity did not reflect the reality of Serb politics. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Serb politics and challenges widespread assumptions regarding the Yugoslav conflict and war. It finds that although Slobodan Milosevic played a highly significant role, he was not always able to control the local Serb leaders. Moreover, it adds to the emerging evidence of the lack of importance of popular attitudes; hardline dominance was generally based on the control of economic and coercive resources rather than on elites successfully "playing the ethnic card." It moves beyond an assumption of automatic ethnic outbidding and thus contributes toward a better understanding of intra-ethnic rivalry in other cases such as Israel/Palestine, Northern Ireland, Nagorno-Karabakh and Rwanda
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781845457914
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781845457914
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781845457914/original
ER  -