Promotional Information

This title provides a full analysis of the post-Cold War revival of ethnic partition, examining the carve-up of Bosnia and comparing it to earlier divisions of Ireland, India, Palestine and Cyprus.

About the Author

Radha Kumar is the author of A History of Doing: An Illustrated Account of Movements for Women's Rights and Feminism in India 1881-1990, from Verso, and co-editor (with Joseph Palau) of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Between War and Peace.

Reviews

[A] brilliant essay.
*Critique Internationale*

[A] brilliantly compact expose of the twentieth-century diplomat's favourite folly. In this small gem of a book, Kumar places the West's multicultural solution to the Bosnian war in a long, inglorious line of botched partitions.
*The Independent*

A well-researched, thorough and readable account.
*Shashi Tharoor, Executive Assistant to the Secretary General, UN*

An erutite study of partition ... presents a thorough critical history of the war and the various peace plans which laid the path to partition.
*Irish Times*

Elegant and concise ... a compelling narrative.
*Choice*