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James was born in the United States.
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James studied at the School of East European and Slavonic Studies and received Ph.D.
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James studied at the School of East European and Slavonic Studies and received Ph.D.
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Triumph of the Lack of Will
(This book examines how and why the United States, Britain...)
This book examines how and why the United States, Britain, France, and Germany failed to cope with the collapse of Yugoslavia and its descent into a savage civil war. This failure also shattered long-cherished notions about how the UN, NATO, and the European Community would deal with such a crisis and prompted a drastic reassessment of their roles. Gow demonstrates that the lack of timing, bad judgment, poor cohesion, and absence of political will over the use of force were the fundamental reasons for this failure.
https://www.amazon.com/Triumph-Lack-Will-James-Gow/dp/0231109164/?tag=2022091-20
The Serbian Project and Its Adversaries: A Strategy of War Crimes
(In The Serbian Project and Its Adversaries James Gow prov...)
In The Serbian Project and Its Adversaries James Gow provides the first military-political analysis of the Yugoslav conflicts, arguing that Slobodan Milosevic and his Serbian allies used ethnic cleansing as a method of creating and consolidating borders.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0773523855/?tag=2022091-20
Slovenia and the Slovenes
(One of Europe's smallest countries, with a population of ...)
One of Europe's smallest countries, with a population of less than 2 million, Slovenia has an ancient and distinct national culture. Traces of the Slovene language are found in documents of the ninth century, a system of peasant democracy is recorded in medieval times, and a Slovene Bible appeared as early as 1557. Slovene culture survived centuries of incorporation within the Habsburg Empire. Emerging as an independent state in 1991 at the breakup of the remnants of Tito's Yugoslavia, Slovenia now faces the challenge of defining itself as a sovereign country within the "New Europe", as it deals with problems of political and economic transition from both the communist period and the dissolution of the Yugoslav federation. This comprehensive introduction to the history, culture, and politics of Slovenia shows how Slovenes are working to become part of Europe while striving to preserve their distinctive culture.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0253336635/?tag=2022091-20
War and War Crimes: The Military, Legitimacy and Success in Armed Conflict
(The laws of war have always been concerned with issues of...)
The laws of war have always been concerned with issues of necessity and proportionality, but how are these principles applied in modern warfare? What are the pressures on practitioners where an increasing emphasis on legality is the norm? Where do such boundaries lie in the contexts, means, and methods of contemporary war? What is wrong, or right, in the view of military-political practitioners, in how those concepts relate to today's means and methods of war? These are among the issues addressed by James Gow in his compelling analysis of war and war crimes, which draws upon research conducted over many years with defence professionals from all over the world.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0199327025/?tag=2022091-20
Legitimacy and the Military: The Yugoslav Crisis
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312072090/?tag=2022091-20
James Gow
Edit ProfileEducation
James studied at School of East European and Slavonic Studies and received Ph.D.
Career
James Gow has held teaching and research positions at Hatfield Polytechnic and the Centre for Defence Studies.
He also wrote nonfiction: Legitimacy and the Military: The Yugoslav Crisis, Triumph of the Lack of Will: International Diplomacy and the Yugoslav War. Mark Danner included Triumph of the Lack of Will in a group critique of books about the region in the New York Review of Books and praised Triumph of the Lack of Will as a “detailed accounting” of the escalation of hostilities between the states of the former Yugoslavia.
Besides, James wrote many monographs for Brassey’s Centre for Defence Studies, including The Gulf Crisis: Politico-Military Implications, 1990; Yugoslav Endgames: Civil Strife and Inter-State Conflict, 1991; and PeaceMaking, Peace-Keeping: European Security and the Yugoslav Wars, 1992.
Achievements
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James Gow is known as the author, who penned several books and monographs on the breakup of the former Yugoslavia into several different states and the subsequent wars that have erupted between them. His most famous works: Legitimacy and the Military: The Yugoslav Crisis, Triumph of the Lack of Will. He has also edited a volume and written a monograph on the Gulf War.
Works
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War and War Crimes: The Military, Legitimacy and Success in Armed Conflict
(The laws of war have always been concerned with issues of...)
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The Serbian Project and Its Adversaries: A Strategy of War Crimes
(In The Serbian Project and Its Adversaries James Gow prov...)
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Triumph of the Lack of Will
(This book examines how and why the United States, Britain...)
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Slovenia and the Slovenes
(One of Europe's smallest countries, with a population of ...)
- Legitimacy and the Military: The Yugoslav Crisis
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War and War Crimes: The Military, Legitimacy and Success in Armed Conflict
Views
James Gow provides the first military-political analysis of the Yugoslav conflicts, arguing that Slobodan Milosevic and his Serbian allies used ethnic cleansing as a method of creating and consolidating borders. Although he considers the approaches taken by Belgrade's adversaries, Gow argues that Serbia's deliberate strategy of ethnic cleansing was at the heart of the war and that it was in essence criminal; in other words, it was a strategy of war crimes.
Quotations: "The Yugoslav war moved from being an important question for European stability and security and a test of the then CSCE’s brand new Conflict Prevention Centre, to being a test of the future of European Union Common Foreign and Security Policy.”
