ID | 062252 |
Title Proper | Terrorist sanctuaries and Bosnia-Herzegovina |
Other Title Information | challenging conventional assumptions |
Language | ENG |
Author | Innes, Michael A |
Publication | Jul-Aug 2005. |
Summary / Abstract (Note) | This article argues that a model of terrorism and terrorist sanctuaries rooted in post-9/11 strategic thought and the Global War on Terror is inadequate to the study of terrorism in Bosnia and the Balkans. It addresses a series of conventional assumptions regarding Bosnia-Herzegovina's status as a putative terrorist sanctuary, based on a reading of post-war ethnic politics and political architecture. This assessment turns on the basic notion that terrorism in Bosnia is a complex phenomenon linked to multiple domestic and foreign communities, defined along competing national trajectories and intersecting foreign interests, and subject to evolving political circumstances and priorities. |
`In' analytical Note | Studies in Conflict and Terrorism Vol. 28, No.4; Jul-Aug 2005: p 295-305 |
Journal Source | Studies in Conflict and Terrorism Vol: 28 No 4 |
Key Words | Terrorist Sanctuaries ; Bosnia ; Bosnia-Herzegovina ; Humanitarian Intervention |