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  1. Cover
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. Introduction
  8. 1. Racial Time and the Other
  9. 2. The Vietnam War and the Ethics of Failure
  10. 3. Restoring National Faith
  11. 4. Dracula as Ethnic Conflict
  12. 5. The Feminist Politics of Secular Redemption at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
  13. Epilogue
  14. Acknowledgments
  15. Notes
  16. Index
  17. Author Biography

Index

  • ABC News (television program), 54, 119, 147, 159
  • Abu Ghraib prison, 203–4
  • Accidental Napalm (Ut), 99
  • Achebe, Chinua, 84
  • Adams, Eddie, 73–75, 98–100
  • Afghan Girl (McCurry photograph), 120–24
  • Afghanistan. See Soviet–Afghan War (1979–1989)
  • Agamben, Giorgio, 160, 189–90
  • Ahmed, Sara, 94–95, 217n38
  • Albright, Madeleine, 171
  • Allen, Beverly, 175, 183–84
  • Allen, Tim, 132
  • “American Century” (Luce), 37–38
  • anti-Semitism, 63–64
  • Apocalypse Now (F. Coppola film), 88–91. See also Dream Jungle (Hagedorn)
  • Arnett, Peter, 98–99
  • Arsić, Branka, 130
  • Asad, Talal, 9, 180, 185, 247n77
  • atrocities: landscapes of, 14, 16, 61–64, 71–72; language of, 83; and military intervention, 82; and redemption, 2, 74, 195; and secrecy, 204; Soviet–Afghan War, censorship, 112–16; tribunals to address, 8, 168, 173, 185–88; Vietnam War images, 2, 15, 73–75, 77, 80, 94–100, 101. See also ethnic cleansing
  • Baedecker travel guides, 49
  • Baldwin, Kate, 21, 43–44, 51, 57
  • Balkan Ghosts (Kaplan), 35, 37, 59–69, 70; critique of, 60–61; influence on U.S. foreign policy, 59, 61; racialized landscape in, 63–65
  • Balkanization, 141
  • Balkan Mediations (Pomegrenade project), 139–40
  • Balkans: Dracula/Gothic imaginary of, 138–45; ethnic cleansing in, 4–5, 61–64, 71–72, 130–31, 145–47, 157, 173; as incomplete, 65, 137, 216n36; otherness of, 60, 61, 69, 132, 133, 139; pagan vision of time in, 39; racialized landscape of, 63–65; terrorism in, 64; travelogue on, 59–69. See also Operation Allied Force (1999); specific countries
  • Ball, George, 80, 118
  • Barber, Benjamin, 34
  • Barthes, Roland, 96–97
  • Bayoumi, Moustafa, 215n20
  • Belgian Congo: atrocities in, 82
  • Benjamin, Walter, 148, 175
  • Berghoffen, Debra, 177
  • Berlin Wall, fall of (1989), 34
  • Beydoun, Khaled, 204
  • Bialek, Bertha, 53, 55, 57
  • Bialek, Jack, 55
  • Bialek, Nancy, 55
  • Black, Cofer, 201
  • Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (West), 69, 184
  • Black Reconstruction (Du Bois), 214n14
  • Blackwood’s Magazine, 81
  • Blakely, Allison, 224–25n52
  • boat people, Vietnamese, 73
  • Borstelmann, Thomas, 20
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina: civil war in, 59, 146, 163–64, 167
  • Bosnian Muslim women: rape warfare against, 167, 168–69, 175, 178–85; secularization of, 168–69, 180, 181, 183–84; as symbol, 200
  • Boston Marathon bombing (2013), 204, 205–6
  • Bringa, Tone, 180–81
  • Brookings Institution, 161
  • “Brotherhood and Unity,” 194
  • Brown, Wendy, 188, 194
  • Brown v. Board of Education, 11
  • Bryant, Hilda, 119–20
  • Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 100, 110–11
  • Bush, George W., 129, 200
  • Butler, Judith, 95
  • Callincos, Alex, 162
  • camera as weapon, 74, 92, 95. See also photojournalistic images
  • capitalism: Protestant values of, 66; and racialized labor, 10–11; transition to, 39; underlying tenets, 163; and universality, 215
  • Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 163–64
  • Carter, Jimmy, 40, 100, 109
  • Casement, Roger, 83, 85
  • Casey, William, 108
  • Cassese, Antonio, 1
  • Catholicism, 68; Croatian 65, 245n52, 245n59
  • Ćećez, Grozdana, 188
  • Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 121, 125, 201–2
  • Chakrabarty, Dipesh, 78
  • Chari, Sharad, 26
  • Charlie Wilson’s War (film), 102–3, 124–27
  • Chechnya, 39, 206
  • Chomsky, Noam, 100
  • Christian Science Monitor (newspaper), 52
  • CIA. See Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
  • Civil Rights Act (1964), 80, 134
  • civil rights reform, 4, 10–12, 40, 208
  • Clark, Wesley, 156–57
  • Cleopatra (film), 50–51
  • Clifford, James, 81
  • Clinton, Bill, 35, 59, 61, 129, 130, 133–34, 136, 137–38, 146, 148, 156, 200
  • Clinton, Hillary, 148
  • Cohen, Roger, 163
  • Cold War legacies, 7; containment policy, 40, 43, 164; and illiberalism, 12; and postsocialist imperialism, 3, 6–7, 33, 42; racial reorientations of, 18–23, 52; reescalation of, 42–43; and U.S. interventionism, 15, 19–20
  • collateral damage, 2, 138, 155, 159
  • color blindness, 36, 44, 48
  • “Coming Anarchy, The” (Kaplan), 70
  • communism: and “East” label, 21, 217n42; free world vs., 19, 40, 88, 103–4, 106; and justice, 172
  • Congo Free State. See Belgian Congo
  • “Congo Report, The” (Casement), 83
  • Conrad, Joseph, 63, 65, 75–77, 81–87. See also Heart of Darkness (Conrad)
  • containment policy, 40, 43, 164
  • conversion: to anti-racism, 10; human rights as a mode of, 185; to liberal personhood, 5, 7–9, 169, 186, 191–93; to postsocialist humanity, 6, 12; religious, 38, 66, 69, 205
  • Coppola, Eleanor, 88, 90
  • Coppola, Francis Ford, 88–91. See also Apocalypse Now (F. Coppola film)
  • Croatia, fascism in, 64
  • Cronkite, Walter, 110
  • cultural production, 4, 139
  • Davis, Peter, 95–96
  • Dayton Peace Accords, 130, 174, 185
  • decolonization, 20, 22, 26, 69, 106
  • Disuniting of America, The (Schlesinger), 33
  • diversity: and humanitarian militarism, 2, 4–5, 131–32; Islam on, 13; as liberty, 10, 134; and postsocialist imperialism, 180; promotion of, 41, 131–32; and prosperity, 137; and Sovietization, 22, 219n48. See also multiculturalism
  • Doney, Nick, 110
  • Dracula (Stoker), 128, 138, 140–43, 145
  • Dream Jungle (Hagedorn), 88, 91–94
  • Du Bois, W. E. B., 44, 214n14
  • Dudziak, Mary, 11, 20
  • Durschmied, Eric, 115–16
  • Eastern Europe: capitalism in, 24; as fledgling democracies, 42; immigration patterns from, 218–19n45; as other, 216n36; perpetual belatedness of, 40; transnational racialization of, 21
  • Ebony (magazine), 53
  • Eddie Adams: Vietnam, 98
  • El-Tayeb, Fatima, 216n35
  • Enlightenment ideologies, 5, 25, 68, 216n36
  • Enloe, Cynthia, 175, 176
  • Esmeir, Samera, 241n5
  • Essence (magazine), 53, 55
  • ethics: feminist, 185; of representation, 87–94, 198–99. See also humanitarianism
  • ethnic cleansing, 1, 188; in Balkans, 4–5, 61–62, 130–31, 145–47, 157; during Holocaust, 145–47; media documentation of, 153
  • ethnography, 26–27
  • ethnoreligious conflict, 1; travelogues on, 35, 39, 58–69. See also ethnic cleansing
  • European imperialism. See imperialism, European
  • exceptionalism, U.S., 4, 11, 17–18, 80–81, 94, 98, 144
  • exoticism, 45
  • Explorer (television program), 122–23
  • Fabian, Johannes, 38
  • Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. See Yugoslavia (former)
  • feminism: on Afghan girl image, 121; ethics, 185; and humanitarian imperialism, 179; on human rights, 168–69, 184; on juridical redemption, 174–78; Third World, 175; transnationalization of, 175. See also International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
  • Fessenden, Tracy, 179–80
  • Foucault, Michel, 130
  • freedom: faith in, 105; racial, and capitalism, 40; rating classifications of, 58; in religion, 9–10, 40; religious, 3, 6, 9–10, 64, 67, 106, 109–10, 181; in travelogues, 38, 48–50
  • Freedom Rating classifications, 58
  • free world: vs. Communist ideology, 19, 88, 103–4, 106; and freedom to travel, 37–41; map of, 6, 19–20; redefined boundaries of, 71, 180; as U.S.-led, 6, 11, 19, 24, 40, 77, 133–34
  • frontier. See New Frontier concept
  • Frontline (television news program), 111–12, 201, 203–4
  • fundamentalism, 2, 13, 16, 205, 207; and women’s rights, 235n56
  • Fukuyama, Francis, 34, 107
  • Geneva Conventions, 159
  • genocide, 5, 7, 100, 148–51, 157, 159, 162, 173; and foundations of U.S. nation, 9, 88, 134; and gender, 174–76, 189, 244n45, 246n74; postmodern, 243n23. See also Holocaust
  • geopolitical imaginaries, 7, 15, 20–21; in travelogues, 42, 59, 61, 64, 70; and unveiling, 121–22
  • glasnost, 52, 53
  • globalization: of humanitarian imperialism, 10; and U.S. imperialism, 8
  • Gocić, Goran, 154–55
  • Golden, Lily, 53, 56
  • Golden, Oliver, 52–53, 57
  • Gorbachev, Mikhail, 52, 54
  • Gordon, Avery, 145
  • Gosser, David, 96
  • Greene, Graham, 125–28
  • Grewal, Inderpal, 36
  • guerilla groups: U.S. aid to, 101, 102–4, 107–8, 120
  • Gula, Sharbat, 124
  • Hadžić Habiba, 188
  • Hagedorn, Jessica, 88, 91–94. See also Dream Jungle (Hagedorn)
  • Hague, The, 149, 163, 166, 170, 188; and Peace Conferences, 164
  • Halberstam, David, 98, 99–100
  • Hapsburg Empire, 227n125
  • Hatch, Orrin, 115
  • Havel, Vlaclav, 161
  • Heart of Darkness (Conrad), 65, 75–77, 81–87; as critique of imperialism, 83–87; inspiration for film/writing, 87–89, 91, 93, 101, 102; storyline, 82–83
  • Hearts and Minds (Davis documentary), 95–96
  • Hearts of Darkness (E. Coppola documentary), 88–91
  • Herzegovina. See Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Hesford, Wendy, 16, 177, 235n56
  • Hirsch, Francine, 22
  • Hochschild, Adam, 84
  • Holocaust, 146; as analogy, 133, 145–51, 244n45; and Soviet–Afghan War, 100, 114
  • homogeneity, 5, 6, 12, 13, 19, 22, 219n48, 245n58
  • Homo Sacer (Agamben), 189–90
  • Hong, Grace, 215n25
  • Hoover, J. Edgar, 19
  • Hoppe, E. O., 65
  • Hua, Julietta, 16
  • Huckleberry Finn (Twain), 50
  • Hughes, Langston, 44
  • humanitarian imperialism. See imperialism, humanitarian
  • humanitarian intervention, 1–2; and diversity, 131–32; emergence of, 163; justification for, 130, 133–34, 200–201; and perpetual warfare, 1, 14, 200–201; as postsocialist imperialism, 3, 22–23; rationalization of, 23; role of media, 151–59
  • humanitarianism: cultural critique of, 27; and diversity, 131–32; feeling of, 74–75, 81–82, 84–87, 95–99; foundations of, 3, 8, 15, 77; as global ethic, 14–15, 18, 26–27, 71; of ICTY, 170–74; ideals as hollow, 126–27; and international juridical governance, 167–68, 171; ironies of, 29, 76; militaristic, 15–16, 72, 103, 133, 135–36, 148, 152; of NATO, 156–57, 161–62; and otherness, 132; paradoxical concepts in, 16; racialization of, 81–87; redemption through, 14, 74, 104. See also imperialism, humanitarian
  • human rights, 1; vs. containment, 40; origin narratives of, 9; and postsocialist imperialism, 17–18; redemption through, 188, 194–95; revealing abuses, 7; sex equality as, 179; universality in, 16–17, 178; violations in Afghanistan, 113–14, 120
  • Hunt, Swanee, 183, 184, 200
  • Huntington, Samuel, 34, 107, 129
  • Hussein, Saddam, 163
  • Ibrahimefendić, Teufika, 186
  • ICC. See International Criminal Court (ICC)
  • ICTR. See International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)
  • ICTY. See International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
  • Ignatieff, Michael, 18, 137, 145
  • illiberalism, 12, 44, 56, 58, 248n4
  • “Image of Africa, An” (Achebe), 84
  • imperialism (generally): change in connotation, 70; fictions of, 93–94; racialization of bodies in, 3. See also specific types
  • imperialism, European: contribution to postsocialist imperialism, 5, 24, 27, 163; critique of, 83–87; moral darkness in, 81–82; and racialized colonies, 20; vs. Soviet imperialism, 22
  • imperialism, humanitarian: emergence of, 35, 163, 164; and Euro-American feminism, 168–69, 179; foundations of, 3; globalization of, 10; and racial/religious difference, 10, 35–37, 70, 133, 150, 163; technologies of, 134, 137, 138–45, 151, 158, 201–2
  • imperialism, postsocialist: and diversity, 180; foundations of, 3, 5, 6–7, 33, 42; and human rights, 17–18; and international law, 159–65; justification for, 164–65, 201; technologies of, 14–18, 22–23, 137; U.S. imperialism as, 24, 132
  • imperialism, Soviet, 23, 43–44, 51, 70, 164; of Bolsheviks, 220n53; and religious minorities, 104, 115; in Third World, 43, 106, 217–18n42
  • imperialism, U.S.: endorsement of, 71; foundations of, 5; and globalization, 8, 137; and international law, 17; in Middle East, 103; as postsocialist, 24; rationalization of, 23; and social justice movements, 80; sovereignty of, 18, 160–61; in Third World, 144–45; in Vietnam War, 14–15; and women’s rights, 180; and world leadership, 6, 11–12
  • International Association for the Exploration and Civilization in Africa, 82
  • International Criminal Court (ICC), 171
  • International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), 1, 25, 152, 158, 163; digital archive, 186–88, 191–92; and feminist consciousness, 174–78, 243n22; film on, 166–68; humanitarianism of, 169, 170–74, 188–89; mission of, 173; reconciliation by, 193–94; statistics, 171; on wartime sexual violence, 176
  • International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), 1, 171, 176
  • international law: ICTY influence on, 188–89; NATO violation of, 159–65; and U.S. imperialism, 17
  • intervention. See humanitarian intervention
  • intolerance, 12; circulation of images, 7; ethnic, 193–94; Islamic, 13, 30; racial, 10, 12, 56; religious, 13, 15, 19, 56, 193; Soviet, 48, 58; travelogues on, 36; in U.S. policies, 3, 15. See also tolerance
  • Iraq, war in, 202
  • Islam: Bosnian, 181–82, 184; Iranian, 184; journalistic portrayal of, 105; racialization of, 13; Saudi, 181, 184; and terrorism, 204–5. See also Bosnian Muslim women
  • Jacoby, Susan, 47–48. See also Soul to Soul (Khanga/Jacoby)
  • Jefferson, Thomas, 18
  • Jennings, Peter, 73
  • jihad, 110–12
  • Johnson, Lyndon B., 80
  • Johnstone, Diana, 162
  • justice: alternative visions of, 17, 195–99; and demise of communism, 172; effect of U.S. imperialism on, 17; just war rhetoric, 133–38, 146, 161; liberalism and the monopolization of, 17, 27, 167, 185, 194; and U.S. militarism, 40–41
  • Kaplan, Amy, 89
  • Kaplan, Caren, 36
  • Kaplan, Robert, 35, 37, 59–72
  • Karel, Frank, 55
  • Karmal, Babrak, 106–7
  • Kendzior, Sarah, 206
  • Kennan, George, 43, 164
  • Kennedy, John F., 76, 77–81
  • Kerr, Rachel, 172
  • Khanga, Abdullah, 53, 56. See also Soul to Soul (Khanga/Jacoby)
  • Khanga, Yelena, 37, 47, 52–58
  • Kim, Jodi, 21
  • Kipling, Rudyard, 112
  • Klass, Rosanne, 113
  • Klein, Christina, 21
  • Koff, Clea, 190–91
  • Koppel, Ted, 159
  • Kosovo, civil war in, 59; as first Internet war, 155; media, role in, 147, 150–59; NATO military intervention, 129, 130–31, 136–39, 143–45, 146, 147–65; revocation of autonomy, 135–36
  • Kosovo Liberation Army, 147
  • Kovač, Radomir, 176
  • Kozol, Wendy, 235n56
  • Krauthammer, Charles, 108
  • Kucan, Milan, 134
  • Kunarac, Dragoljub, 176
  • Lee, Andrea, 36, 41–52. See also Russian Journal (Lee)
  • Lee, James, 41
  • Leonard, John, 46–47
  • Leopold II, King of Belgium, 82
  • liberalism: Eastern Europe transition to, 42, 52; and feminism, 174, 178–80; freedom rating system for, 58; principles of, 3, 105; and rights, 4–5, 14, 16, 172–73, 178–79; for Third World, 40, 43, 78, 80, 112; and tolerance/multiculturalism, 10, 12, 28, 34–37, 149–50, 163, 165, 167, 169, 182, 194; universalization of, 34, 39, 161
  • Loan, Nguyen Ngoc, 98
  • Longinović, Tomislav, 131
  • Lowe, Lisa, 213n3, 214n18
  • Luce, Henry, 37–38
  • Luciano, Dana, 75
  • MacKinnon, Catherine, 174, 178–79
  • Mahmood, Saba, 245–46n62
  • Mandela, Nelson, 162
  • Marcos, Ferdinand, 89
  • Marshall Plan, 137
  • McAlister, Melani, 21
  • McCurry, Steve, 120–24
  • McKay, Claude, 44
  • McLaren, Peter, 41
  • media: new technologies, 15, 29, 132, 142–43, 152–53, 155; and otherness, 142, 152; photojournalistic images, 2, 7–8, 15, 73–75, 77, 80, 94–100, 101; role for Operation Allied Force, 151–59
  • Melamed, Jodi, 8–9, 12, 21, 214n19
  • militarism, U.S.: and humanitarianism, 2–4, 15–16, 72, 103, 133, 135–36, 148, 152; and international justice, 40–41; and liberal rights, 78; multicultural fantasy of, 3–4; as postsocialist imperialism, 3, 137; as racialized technology, 22–23. See also humanitarian intervention
  • Milošević, Slobodan, 134, 135–36, 137, 147, 153, 157, 162–63
  • Moldavia: described, 67
  • moral authority, 10–11, 97, 100, 132, 149
  • Morris, Margot, 88–89
  • Moscow Weekly News (newspaper), 52
  • Ms. (magazine), 174
  • mujahideen: journalists dressed as, 116–20, 121; U.S. aid to, 15, 102–5, 108, 110, 112
  • multiculturalism, 8–13; emergence of, 33–34, 44; and free market, 33–57; in postsocialist imperialism, 5, 37; on racial/religious difference, 6, 9, 37, 56; rhetoric of, 41; and secularism, 9, 194; in Soviet Union, 219n48; in travelogues, 52–58; and universal inclusion, 9; in U.S. militarism, 4, 133–34. See also diversity
  • Murnau, F. W., 140
  • My Lai massacre, images of, 80
  • National Geographic (magazine), 120–21
  • National Security Agency (NSA), 202
  • Native American peoples, 79–80
  • NATO. See North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
  • neoliberalism, 12, 214n19
  • New Frontier concept, 76–81, 96
  • New Imperialism, The (Seton-Watson), 22
  • new world order, 7, 12–13, 14, 59, 62, 129–30, 144, 162–64
  • New Yorker (magazine), 43
  • New York Public Library, 41
  • New York Times (newspaper), 18, 174
  • Nightline (television news program), 159
  • 9/11 attacks. See September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks
  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO): in Afghanistan, 102; humanization of interventions, 151–59; international law violations, 159–65; and role of media, 151–59; in Serbia and Kosovo, 129, 130–31, 136–39, 143–45, 146, 147–65
  • Nosferatu (Murnau film), 140–41
  • Noyce, Phillip, 125–26
  • NSA. See National Security Agency (NSA)
  • Nuremberg Tribunal, 1, 170
  • Obama, Barack, 203
  • Operation Allied Force (1999), 59, 130–33, 137–38, 143–45, 146, 147–65
  • Operation Desert Storm, 140
  • Operation Horseshoe, 147
  • Orientalist discourse, 21, 60, 217–18n42
  • Orthodox Christianity, 63, 65–69, 129, 150; and Bosnian multiculturalism, 182; and the Serbs, 181, 245n52, 245n58
  • otherness: African, 85; Balkan, 60, 61, 69, 132, 133, 139; East European, 216n36; Islamic, 204–5; and new media technologies, 142, 152; racialization of, 71–72; in travelogues, 45, 60, 61, 69, 71–72
  • Ottoman Empire, 67–69, 70, 141, 180–81, 227n125
  • Pauli, Richard, 119–20
  • Peterson, Dale, 54
  • Pfaff, William, 43
  • photojournalistic images, 2, 15, 73–75, 77, 80, 94–100, 101
  • Pomegrenade, 139–40
  • Pond, Elizabeth, 47
  • postcolonialism, 22, 24, 26
  • postsocialism, 12; as analytic, 23–27; global conditions of, 23–27; and ICTY governance, 173–74; Vietnam War as first instance, 15
  • postsocialist imperialism. See imperialism, postsocialist
  • Pratt, Mary Louise, 36
  • Priest, Dana, 201–2
  • primitivism, 45
  • prisoners, treatment of, 1, 113, 203–4
  • Protestantism, 65; and notions of freedom 10, 68, 179; and Reagan, 104; and the Reformation, 62, 66–67; and U.S. imperialism, 214n13
  • Puritans, 10, 79–80
  • Quiet American, The (Greene novel), 125–26
  • Quiet American, The (Noyce film), 125–27
  • Quindlen, Anna, 174
  • racialization: and atrocities, 2; of bodies in imperialism, 3; of Communist unfreedom, 22; of continents, 7, 20, 64, 85–86, 217n38; and difference, 20; dualism in, 19; of Eastern Europe, 42; hierarchy in, 5–6; of humanitarianism, 81–87; of ideology and belief, 3–9; of labor, 10–11; of otherness, 71; of religious difference, 7, 8–13, 27, 37, 62, 132, 168–69; of Seeing/feeling, 97; as transnational process, 10, 21, 41, 70
  • racism: institutionalized, 20, 217n39; against Native American peoples, 79–80; and totalitarianism, 46
  • Radio Television Serbia (RTS), 153–54, 157–58
  • rape warfare, 7, 30; against Bosnian Muslim women, 167, 168–69, 175, 178–85; camps, 167, 168–69, 174–78, 188–90; classified as torture, 168; collective shame on, 185; as crime against humanity, 174, 176, 177
  • Rather, Dan, 111, 117–18, 125
  • Reagan, Ronald, 40–41, 43, 54, 101, 103–4, 106, 115, 223n27
  • Reagan Doctrine, 101, 104, 106–12, 118, 125
  • redemption, 8; and atrocity, 2, 74, 195; humanitarian fantasies of, 14, 74, 104; juridical, 167, 169, 174–78, 185, 188, 190; religious, 110; role of tribunals in, 191; secular, 10, 178, 194, 247n77; in U.S. imperialism, 18, 24, 27, 151
  • Regarding the Pain of Others (Sontag), 97
  • religious difference: and atrocities, 2; and humanitarian imperialism, 10, 35–37, 70, 133, 150, 163; multiculturalism on, 6, 9, 37; racialization of, 7, 8–13, 27, 37, 62, 132, 168–69
  • religious freedom, 3, 6, 9–10, 64, 67, 106, 109–10, 181
  • Represent and Destroy (Melamed), 12
  • Revel, Jean-François, 113
  • Richards, Thomas, 142
  • Rights of Man, 17, 78
  • Robeson, Paul, 44
  • Robinson, Piers, 152–53
  • Romania: described, 64–65
  • Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, 171
  • RTS. See Radio Television Serbia (RTS)
  • Russian Journal (Lee), 36, 41–52; freedom/unfreedom in, 48–50; reviews of, 46–48
  • Said, Edward, 25, 217n42
  • Sarah Phillips (Lee), 46
  • Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., 33, 34
  • Schmitt, Carl, 160
  • Schwartz-DuPre, Rae Lynn, 121, 122, 124
  • Second World, 21, 60, 70
  • secularism: of Bosnian Muslim women, 168–69, 180, 181, 183–84; as ideology of human difference, 10; liberal principles of, 167, 179–80; and multiculturalism, 9, 194; and transcendence, 213–14n12
  • segregation, 20, 33, 40, 217n39
  • Seifert, Ruth, 185
  • Sellers, Patricia, 176–77
  • Sells, Michael, 181
  • September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, 200, 201
  • Serbia, civil war in: media, role in, 147, 151–59; NATO military intervention, 129, 130–31, 133, 136–39, 143–45, 146, 147–65
  • Seton-Watson, Hugh, 22
  • Sharratt, Sara, 177
  • Shea, Jamie, 154
  • Shih, Shu-mei, 25–26, 69, 220n54
  • Shock and Awe campaign, 202
  • Silva, Denise Ferreira da, 20
  • Simmons, Alan, 83
  • Simmons, Cynthia, 60–61
  • Singh, Nikhil Pal, 11
  • 60 Minutes (television news program), 111, 117, 125
  • Skoco, Mirjana, 153
  • slavery, 9, 18, 177
  • Slike sa ugla (Žbanić documentary), 195–99
  • Slotkin, Richard, 79–80
  • Sobchack, Vivian, 98
  • socialism: as alternative justice, 4, 11, 17; and self-governance in Yugoslavia, 194
  • Society of Professional Journalists, 152
  • Solana, Javier, 148
  • Soltan, Neda Agha, 248n4
  • Sonnenfeldt, Helmut, 107
  • Sontag, Susan, 97
  • Soul to Soul (Khanga/Jacoby), 37, 47, 52–58; review of, 55; title meaning, 54
  • Soviet–Afghan War (1979–1989), 70, 100–101; Afghan girl image, 120–24; atrocities, censorship on reporting, 112–16; comparison to Vietnam War, 105, 106–8, 115, 118; as hidden war, 113–15; human rights violations, 113–14, 120; journalists dressed as Afghans, 116–20, 121; mujahideen, depiction of, 110–11; Soviet Union, depiction of, 107, 112–13, 119; U.S. foreign policy, 102–3, 106–12, 125
  • Soviet Union: expansionism, 21–22, 43, 51; glasnost, 52, 53; Khanga travelogue on, 52–58; Lee travelogue on, 42–52; as multicultural entity, 219n47. See also imperialism, Soviet
  • Spanos, William, 80–81
  • spatial distance, 38
  • Spiegel, Der (magazine), 147
  • Srebrenica, mass murders, 173, 186
  • Starosta, Anita, 39–40
  • Stiglmayer, Alexandra, 175–76
  • Stoker, Bram, 128, 138, 140–41, 145
  • Storm (film), 166–68
  • Tanzania, 53, 56
  • temporality, 38–39, 46
  • terrorism: in Balkans, 64; religious intolerance as, 19; and securitization, 203–4; war on terror, 1, 23, 201–2
  • Terrorist Surveillance Program, 202
  • Third World: Balkans as part of, 64; and containment, 6; decolonization of, 20, 69; feminism in, 175; perpetual crisis in, 60, 70; racialization of, 21; Soviet imperialism in, 43, 106, 217–18n42; U.S. imperialism in, 144–45; U.S. liberal agenda for, 40, 43, 78, 80, 112. See also specific countries
  • This Was Not Our War (Hunt), 183
  • Thompson, Chad, 25
  • Three Worlds ideology, 20
  • Time and the Other (Fabian), 38–39
  • Tito, Josip Broz, 135, 173, 245n52
  • Todorova, Maria, 141, 216n36
  • Todorović, Stevan, 193–94
  • Tokyo Tribunal, 1, 170
  • tolerance: and ICTY, 167, 193–94; and multiculturalism, 4, 9, 23, 134, 207; and prosperity, 57, 137; religious, 10, 67–68, 181–84; and secularism, 179; and U.S. imperialism, 137–38, 148, 164–65; and women’s rights, 200–201. See also intolerance
  • “Top Secret America” (television program), 203
  • Torov, Ivan, 134–35
  • transnationalization: of American dream, 110; of liberty/rights, 10; of racial logics, 10, 21
  • Transylvania: described, 64, 66, 128–29
  • travelogues, 37–41; on ethnoreligious conflict, 35, 39; on freedom/unfreedom, 38, 48–50; and geopolitical imaginaries, 42, 59, 61, 64, 70; multicultural gaze in, 36, 52–58. See also specific works
  • tribalism, 33, 134, 136, 168, 188
  • Tsarnaev, Dzhokhar, 205–7
  • Tsarnaev, Tamerlan, 205–6
  • Tudjman, Franjo, 134
  • Turner, Frederick Jackson, 79
  • Twain, Mark, 50
  • 20/20 (television news program), 54
  • UDHR. See Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)
  • Udovicki, Jasminka, 134–35
  • unfreedom: racialization of, 22; in religion, 6; in travelogues, 38, 48–50
  • United Nations, 130, 161, 168; Rome Statute, 171; Security Council, 1, 136, 170
  • Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), 17, 195
  • Unlikely Weapon, An (documentary), 73
  • USA PATRIOT Act (2001), 160, 201
  • U.S. imperialism. See imperialism, U.S.
  • U.S.S.R. See Soviet Union
  • Ut, Huynh Cong, 99
  • vampire: as political figure, 138, 162; rogue nations, 132
  • Van Helsing (film), 128–30
  • veiling/unveiling, 121–24, 184
  • Verdery, Katherine, 26
  • Vietnam War (1961–1975): failure of, 77, 94–95, 106, 126; images of atrocity, 2, 15, 73–75, 77, 80, 94–100, 101; loss in, 100–101; Soviet–Afghan War compared to, 105, 106–8, 115, 118; as U.S. imperialism, 14–15
  • Von Eschen, Penny, 21
  • Voting Rights Act (1965), 11, 80
  • Vukov, Tamara (“Pomegrenade”), 139–40
  • Vuković, Zoran, 176
  • warfare: just war rhetoric, 133–38, 146, 161; perpetual, 1, 23, 201–2, 204; war on terror, 1, 23, 201–2
  • Washington Post (newspaper), 53, 205
  • weapons of mass destruction, 202, 206
  • Weaver, Sigourney, 122–23
  • West, Rebecca, 69, 184
  • white supremacy, 5, 21–22, 44
  • Wiesel, Elie, 148
  • Williams, Randall, 17
  • Wilson, Charlie, 102–3, 125
  • Wired (magazine), 154
  • Wolff, Larry, 216n36
  • Woodger, William, 153
  • Worlds Apart (Hunt), 184, 200
  • Yugoslavia (former): Clinton on, 35; disintegration of, 134, 181; gendered genocide in, 174–75; humanitarian law violations, 170; postsocialist predicament in, 33; violent conflict in, 15, 23, 59–60, 63–64, 130, 134, 167, 173. See also Bosnia and Herzegovina; International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
  • Žbanić, Jasmila, 195–96, 207–8

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Portions of chapter 1 were previously published as “‘Race’ toward Freedom: Post–Cold War U.S. Multiculturalism and the Reconstruction of Eastern Europe,” Journal of American Culture 29, no. 2 (June 2006): 219–29. Portions of chapter 4 were previously published as “Dracula as Ethnic Conflict: The Technologies of ‘Humanitarian Intervention’ in the Balkans during the 1999 NATO Bombing of Serbia and Kosovo,” in Monsters and the Monstrous: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil, ed. Niall Scott (New York: Rodopi, 2007), 61–79.

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