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The Wreckage Reconsidered: Five Oxymorons from Balkan Deconstruction

The Wreckage Reconsidered: Five Oxymorons from Balkan Deconstruction

Liotta, P. H.

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Eastern European HistoryGeneral Political ScienceInternational Relations

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ISBN10: 0739100122
ISBN13: 9780739100127
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: May 20 1999
Pages: 276
Weight: 1.18
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.16
Language: English
The Wreckage Reconsidered examines Yugoslav disintegration in order to suggest, through the Yugoslav example, that a reexamination of national security strategy and foreign policy concerns for the United States in a new century is not only a wise choice but an imperative one. P. H. Liotta examines this subject by means of the oxymoron, which he defines through its specific Balkan application: a force or issue so contrary in nature that it may remain problematic no matter what approach or resolution might be offered. The five oxymorons Liotta considers are: U.S. strategic perspectives as they have applied to the Balkan example; the rise of the parastate as a result of recent Balkan history; a strategy of chaos, as it may have applied in the last Balkan war and as it may target American strategic culture in the future; religion, a cultural and political force in the Balkans as it may have provided the occasion, though not the cause, for the outbreak of conflict; and, finally, the recognition that NATO enlargement may bring both unintended and unwelcome consequences.

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