Peacemakers: American Leadership and the End of Genocide in the Balkans

by James W. Pardew

Book Overview

The wars that accompanied the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s were the deadliest European conflicts since World War II. The violence escalated to the point of genocide when, over the course of ten days in July 1995, Serbian troops under the command of General Ratko Mladic murdered 8,000 unarmed men and boys who had sought refuge at a UN safe-haven in Srebrenica. Shocked, the United States quickly launched a diplomatic intervention supported...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081317435X
• ISBN13: 9780813174358
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.2"