The first post-cold war 'humanitarian intervention': Vukovar 1991

Abstract

This paper presents a critical scientific view of some issues of the scientific publication of our colleagues from Croatia: D. Živić, S. Špoljar Vržina, S. Cvikić, I. Žebec Šilj (editors), Vukovar 91 - Genocide and Memoricide Heritage of the European Union, Zagreb: Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences, 2014. It is an attempt to alternatively highlight the background of the military-political case of '1991 Vukovar Operation' in the context of the brutal breakup of the former SFR Yugoslavia, both from outside and inside, the historical conflicts between Croats and Serbs, as well as the international law and the moral principles of global politics and regional security at the outset of the post-cold war era of international relations, in which the nations and nationalities of Yugoslavia found themselves in 1991.

Keywords

• vukovar
• humanitarian intervention
• ustashas
• genocide
• serbs
• yugoslavia