CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2012
| Author | Ilic, Vujo |
|---|---|
| Title | The Role of Cleavages in the 1941-1945 Civil War in Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Summary | This thesis addresses the problem of the role of cleavages in civil wars. Wars are often coded as ethnic or ideological, based on the identification of the master cleavage. It argues against such practice of exogenous classification and instead explains the role of cleavages as endogenous to dynamics of the civil war and its basic feature, breakdown of sovereign authority. Cleavages are instrumental to the civil wars, not essential. It proposes that strategic considerations of warring parties inform patterns of ideological and ethnic cleavages, not the other way around. The research employs comparative historical analysis on the case of civil war in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1941 to 1945. Relying on published primary sources, it compares instances of violent conflicts between the actors at the meso level of analysis to the ethnic or ideological framing of conflicts. The focus of analysis is on the dynamics of state repression and insurgency, conflict and cooperation across, and along master cleavages, and relation between combatants and non-combatants. |
| Supervisor | Maria Kovacs |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2012/ilic_vujo.pdf |
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