During the 1990s, the ‘international community’ was accused of being ‘powerless’ and of ‘doing nothing’, without anyone questioning its desire to put an end to the Yugoslav wars. However, the way in which various international players managed these wars cannot be understood without taking four essential facts into account : a) the Yugoslav wars involved primarily state and inter-state actors; b) the state and inter-state actors from outside the region influenced significantly the development of the war ; c) their action was partly motivated by the pursuit of peculiar objectives such as the redefinition of power relations in Europe or the role of the EU, NATO or the United Nations in the post-1989 world; d) the same actors based their action on the principle of the nation-state (in its ‘idealistic’ or ‘realistic’ version), without considering other possible forms of government.

Online-Lecture by Xavier Bougarel (Centre d’Études Turques, Ottomanes, Balkaniques et Centrasiatiques, Paris)

The Web Lecture Series “Transregional Histories of the Yugoslav Wars” is part of the research project Reordering Yugoslavia, Rethinking Europe, which is organized by the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History together with the Humboldt University of Berlin and the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies.

You are invited to join the lecture and discussion via Zoom

Meeting-ID: 972 5807 1223
Kenncode: 672812

No pre-registration is required for participation.