Nationalism During Armed Conflict: A Study of Ideology and Identity in the Bosnian War, 1992-1995
[Thesis]
Borjan Zic
Lichbach, Mark
University of Maryland, College Park
2017
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Committee members: Birnir, Johanna; McCauley, John; Moaddel, Mansoor; Tismaneanu, Vladimir
Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-06069-0
Ph.D.
Government and Politics
University of Maryland, College Park
2017
This dissertation asks when and why leaders and members of ethno-religious groups choose to express one type of nationalist ideology and ethnic identity during armed conflict instead of another. It argues that patterns of wartime violence and external actors play direct and indirect roles in making certain forms of nationalism and ethnic identity more useful for dealing with wartime circumstances. The dissertation advances this argument by joining together four independent empirical chapters. Each empirical chapter has its own research question, its own dependent variable, and its own theoretical argument. All four chapters focus on one ethno-religious group in conflict: the Bosnian Muslims during the 1990s war in Bosnia.
Political science
Social sciences;Bosnia;Identity;Ideology;Nationalism