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The traditional Theory of The Just Ward The War is an institution to which countries entrust the solution of disputes between peoples. Doctrine on the war registers an evolution in the course of history: the war as a possible means of Justice. The war as a prerogative of the sovereign; war as a crime, its trend lines that somehow coexist in the different historical phases, but at the same time marked the passing of an era to another. The distinction between just war and unjust war is St.…

As was previously mentioned, the Balkan War reflects one way of historicizing mass murder. The Bosnian Serb soldiers and militiamen commenced a campaign of compiling lists of leading Muslim and Croat intellectuals, musicians, and professionals summarily executing them led by President Slobodan Milosevic and General Ratko Mladic from 1992- 1995. The system of control extended beyond inflicting bodily harm and encompassed systems intended to restrict the life and movement of non- Serb civilians.…

in performing his job, providing stability for his family and taking pride in his life’s work. When the military in Bosnia intervened and shifted his job focus and duties from the mining of precious metals, to disposing of bodies of the Bosniak and Croat population in mass grave locations, Milos did not have to agree, he just had to keep doing his job. The military was attempting to cleanse the country by ethnic extermination and by simply performing his job, albeit with people instead of…

Yugoslavia was composed of 6 different Republics (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia) and 7 different ethnic groups( Bosniaks, Croats, Slovenes, Serbs, Montenegrins, Macedonians, Albanians) which were apart of Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1991. Yugoslavia was held together and was under the rule of a communist leader named Josip Broz Tito. From 1945 until his death in 1980 he was able…

The emergence of the Ottoman empire began in 1299 by Oghuz Turks under the rule of Osman 1 in Northwestern Anatolia. Conquests in the Balkans between the years 1362-1389 and the overthrowing of the Byzantine empire had a profound impact on the geopolitics of the Ottoman empire, ultimately transforming the Ottoman empire as a transcontinental empire and claimant to the caliphate. The Ottoman empire was the leading empire of the Islamic world that controlled large swaths of territory that ranged…

in ethnic cleansing as opposed to unstable regimes that are invariably, in flux. Authoritarian regimes are most likely to co-opt or agree with minority groups. These arguments ring true, particularly in the case of ethnic conflict between Serbs and Croats in Croatia from 1991-1995/1998 resulted in civil war which concluded with the near total expulsion of Serbs from Croatia and very high casualties reached genocidal dimensions. Furthermore, the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina from 1991-1995 –…

Austria-Hungary was made up of people with many different nationalities. There were Slavs, Hungarians, Italians, Serbs and Croats. Each one of these people believed that they should rule themselves. Nationalism spurred revolts against the government in 1848. The emperor at this time, Francis Joseph, tried to satisfy these nationalists by allowing small reforms, but he did not…

government through the Serbians living in the country. Through the political power structure that was in place, he was able to find a large backing of the Serbian population to try to topple the already-present Bosnian government, with Franjo Tudjam, a Croat living in Bosnia, trying to do the same with the Croatians living in the area. Ruth Seifert, in her paper “Second Front: The Logic of Sexual Violence in War”, argues that rape that occurs in civil war is “not the sum total of a couple of…

The word genocide can’t help but to strike a cord in the minds of people internationally. The connotation of the word is strong, an implicit call to action, but what if the word itself created more problems for conflict than solutions? A fatal flaw with genocide is the way the term has evolved away from being a legal definition of a crime, to a threshold of evil that can be manipulated to fit or not fit different actions. Genocide, while important, has the detrimental power to create a…

of re-establishment and assistance, at least not until the United States decided to step in and start making strides in relieving some of the surviving or otherwise displaced Jewish people. Likewise, during the Serbian genocide of the Bosniak and Croat populations, the world did nothing notably proactive about easing tensions in the region or attempting or effectively try to keep it from happening, thereby taking a reactive stance; only doing something when the truly horrid happened. However,…