relativism, nihilistic, 150
religion, 14
Remarque, Erich Maria, 87
Republika Srpska, 58
responsibility, ethics of, 16–17
rice pills, 178
Richard III (Shakespeare), 168
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 131
Riyadh, 23
Romans, 10, 182
Rome, 89, 103
Roth, Joseph, 85
Rumor of War (Caputo), 26
Russell, William Howard, 143
Russia, 9, 34, 102, 106–107
Rwanda, 16, 88
Saigon, 8
Sandinistas, 36–37, 144
San Salvador, 8
Sanski Most, 104
Sarajevo, 1–3, 20, 94, 121
Saudi Arabia, 142
Saul, 30
Savic, Obrad, 55
Savimbi, Jonas, 24
Sceck, Don, 132
Schork, Kurt, 168–169
Senate, 5
September 11, 4–5, 8, 15, 44–45
Serbia
Balkans and, 66
Muslims and, 129
myth of war and, 20, 26, 32–34
nationalism and, 14–15
victimhood and, 64
World War I and, 48
See also Bosnian War
Serbian Orthodox Church, 46, 56
Serbian warrior, myth of, 20
Serbo-Croatian, 32
Šešelj, Vojislav, 27
sex, war and, 99–106, 163, 168
shabab, 4
Shakespeare, William, 25, 28–30, 83, 90, 91, 168, 181–182
Shiite rebellion, 2
Shorish, 138
Sierra Leone, 13, 16, 169, 170
Slavica, 48–49, 53
Slovenia, 107
The Smoldering Generation (Asadourian), 123
Smyth Classical Library, 183
Sniper’s Alley, 165
Sokolac, 154, 155
soldiers
patriotism and, 14–15
professional, 90–91
qualities of, 16
Somali, 13
Somoza, Anastasio, 37
Sorak, Rosa and Drago, 50–53
South Africa, 129
South Lebanese Army, 96
Soviet Union. See Russia
Spain, 66
Spanish Civil War, 131
Sparta, 183
Special Investigations Commission, 36
Srebrenica, 16–17, 105, 126
Sri Lanka, 13, 16
Stalin, Joseph, 151
state
culture and, 62
displacement and, 111–112
myth of war and, 22, 23
victimhood and, 64
Steele, Jon, 165
Suchitoto, 40
Sudan, 2, 13
Sudetic, Chuck, 166
suicide, 171, 177–180
Sutjeska, 120, 121
Svevo, Italo, 131
Sweden, 109
Syria, 124, 149
Taliban, 13, 24
Tavernier, Bertrand, 133
Temraz, Hyam, 68
terrorism
democracy and, 9, 148
myth of war and, 22
nuclear, 28
Syria and, 149
war on, 4–5, 8–9
Thanatos, Eros vs., 158–185
Thersites, 25
Third Reich, 59
Thucydides, 183
Tito, Josip Broz, 14–15, 56, 77, 120, 151
Communist Partisans of, 131
myth of war and, 20
Todorov, Tzvetan, 50
Tokyo, 28
Torah, 77
total war. See war
Trawniki, 88
A Treatise on Human Nature (Hume), 19
Trieste, 130–131, 141
Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare), 25, 26, 28–30
Trojan War, 28, 159
Troy, 12
Truth and Reconciliation Commission, 129
Tudjman, Franjo, 21, 33, 34, 69–70
Turjacanin, Zahra, 113
Turkey, 13
Armenian genocide and, 123–126
Kurdish rebellion and, 2
Ukraine, 16, 135
Ulysses, 25
United Nations (UN)
Bosnian War and, 1, 16, 20, 32, 104
Cyprus and, 65, 66
High Commission for Refugees of, 104, 155
Israel and, 68
United States
Armenians and, 125
Bosnia and, 16
Bosnian War and, 20
death and, 160
Kosovo and, 16
nationalism and, 61
September 11 and, 44–45
war on terrorism and, 4
University of Belgrade, 58
Ustashe, 14, 70
Varosha, 65
Vasiljević, Mitar, 113
victimhood, 64
Vietnam, 11, 17, 160
language of war and, 8
myth of war and, 21, 22
nationalism and, 61
Vietnam Veterans Memorial, 11
Vilina Vlas spa, 113
Villani, Mario, 134
violence. See killing
Virgil, 26, 168, 182, 183
Virginia Military Institute, 172
Višegrad, 112, 113
Wall Street Journal, 173
war
aftermath of, 30–32, 106, 117–121, 164–165
anodyne of, 5
attraction of, 3–10, 84
casualties of, 12–14
cause and, 142–156
children and, 93–98
crimes of, 129
as crusade, 4–5
culture and, 3, 62–82
death and, 89, 132–134, 144–146, 157–158, 165–167
dislocation and, 106–112
drug of, 17, 25, 87–88, 101, 162–164, 173
Eros and Thanatos in, 158–185
as false covenant, 161–62
fear and, 83–85
friendship in, 115–116
as god, 10–11
killing and, 8–9, 21, 84–88, 173–177
love and, 100, 158–185
meaning and, 158–159
media and, 20, 142–144
memory recovery and, 122–41
modern, 8, 28, 106
myth of, 3, 11, 17, 19–42, 83–86, 134, 143, 173
nationalism and, 43–61
as necrophilia, 165–166
patriotism and, 10, 14–15, 176
recovery from, 12, 129–130, 133–134, 162
sex and, 99–106, 163, 168
suicide and, 177–80
on terrorism, 4–5, 8–9
warlords
in Bosnia, 30, 163
displacement and, 111–112
in Somali, 13
The Warrior’s Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience (Ignatieff), 71
The Warriors (Gray), 101
Waterloo, 31
Weil, Simone, 21, 30
West, 20, 27
West Bank, 2, 4
West Point, 11
Wheeler, John, 11
Widener Library, 183
Widows (Dorfman), 133
Witness for Peace, 36
Wolves, 113
World War I, 31, 48, 85
World War II, 87, 89, 131, 133, 150
Yale Law School, 11
Yeats, William Butler, 90
Yekhi, Mohammed Masha, 179
Yemen, 2
Yorkshire, 31
Yugoslavia, 15
breakup of, 98–99
Communist Partisans in, 131–132
myth of war and, 20, 27, 33
nationalism and, 46
partisan war in, 167
Tito and, 151
Zagreb, 33, 34
Zagreb University, 70
Zaire, 25
Zenica, 104
Zivotić, Miladin, 57–58
Z
ohrab Center, 125
Zukić, Dzemo, 113
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