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- 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
- 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)