Critical approaches to the Yugoslav break-up and wars

In chapters 1-3 I have made a theoretical critique of critical and emancipatory approaches to security and conflict. I argued that critical and emancipatory theorists have an abstract and idealised notion of emancipation and the political which is not grounded in a critical engagement with the contemporary social and economic context. Consequently, critical and emancipatory theorists do not offer a challenge to contemporary power relations and indeed can end up justifying those power relations. In chapters 4-6 I shift focus to investigate critical approaches to the Yugoslav break-up and wars and the policies that were adopted by the international community at the time.