Ethnic Cleansing: Politics, Policy, Violence: Serb Ethnic Cleansing Campaign in Former Yugoslavia

This dissertation analyzes ethnic cleansing/mass murder through research of the ethnic cleansing campaign pursued by the Serbian political and military leadership in the former Yugoslavia. It offers a new approach to understanding why - unlike other similar multi-ethnic Central and East-European socialist states - ethnic cleansing appeared to be a viable policy option pursuit in former the Yugoslavia. The book provides a new framework for the analysis of ethnic cleansing policy in the function of the (nation) state-building efforts on the part of Serb elites. It identifies, classifies, and explains the specific actions that fall under the policy and practice of ethnic cleansing and their interrelationship. It also looks at the local/communal context, and it sheds additional light on the relationship between the state-apparatus and community/society at large in the operation of ethnic cleansing in former the Yugoslavia. The book concludes that both policy and the effects of ethnic clean