The conceit of innocence : losing the conscience of the West in the war against Bosnia / edited by Stjepan G. Meštrović ; contributors, Akbar S. Ahmed ... [and others].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ethnic cleansing : a metaphor for our time / Akbar S. Ahmed -- The pinstripe approach to genocide / Richard Johnson -- How the conscience of the west was lost / Georgie Anne Geyer -- "We had to jump over the moral bridge" : Bosnia and the pathetic hegemony of face-work / Keith Doubt -- Labeling theory and the wars in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina / Slaven Letica -- Idle curiosity and the production of useless knowledge : academic responses to genocide / Brad K. Blitz -- Serbia and Russia : U.S. appeasement and the resurrection of fascism / Richard Johnson -- Boris Yeltsin as Abraham Lincoln / Albert Wohlstetter -- A tale of two Serbias / Chandler Rosenberger -- Genocide : we are responsible / Stephen W. Walker -- Clinton's "European" Bosnia policies / Marshall Freeman Harris.