The conceit of innocence : losing the conscience of the West in the war against Bosnia

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The conceit of innocence : losing the conscience of the West in the war against Bosnia

Title remainder

losing the conscience of the West in the war against Bosnia

Statement of responsibility

edited by Stjepan G. Meštrović ; contributors, Akbar S. Ahmed [and others]

Contributor

• Ahmed, Akbar S
• Meštrović, Stjepan Gabriel

Subject

• Ethnopsychology
• Yugoslav War, 1991-1995

Language

eng

Summary

"Innocence may be lost in the post-Cold War West, but the imitation of innocence is evident in the social and political landscape of the 1990s. Eminent sociologist David Riesman has argued that the current culture attempts to imitate a purity of action, motive, and spirit commonly associated with the 1950s: faith in government, optimism concerning the future, and a can-do social and political attitude. These essays by prominent scholars and former policy makers carry forward Riesman's assertions in exposing the pretense in supposedly moral-driven Western policy, especially as it pertains to the crisis in Bosnia."--Jacket

Member of

• Eastern European studies (College Station, Tex.), no. 4

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

949.703

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

DR1313

LC item number

.C66 1997

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Eastern European studies

Series volume

no.4