This text looks at the way the war in Kosovo was fought. Kosovo was a virtual war, fought by pilots at 15,000 feet, commanded by Generals whose only view of the battle was through their pilot's bombing sights, and reported by opposing media with competing versions of collateral damage stories.

Virtual War

History

IGNATIEFF, Michael

Europe

Vintage

With The Warrior's Honor and Virtual War, Blood & Belonging forms part of the acclaimed trilogy by Michael Ignatieff on the face of modern conflict. In 1993 Michael Ignatieff set out on a journey to the former Yugoslavia, the Ukraine, Germany, Quebec, Kurdistan and Northern Ireland in order to explore the many faces of modern nationalism at its worst. Modern nationalism is a language of blood: a call to arms that can end in the horror of ethnic cleansing. But it is also a language of belonging: a call to come home. In Blood & Belonging Michael Ignatieff explores both sides of nationalism in a personal odyssey that begins in the nightmare of the former Yugoslavia and ends with his return to his adopted homeland, Great Britain's disunited kingdom.

Blood and belonging: journeys into the new nationalism

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

In this work, Michael Ignatieff re-creates the lives of his grandparents before and during the Russian revolution. Through his own trips to modern day Russia and through family documents and journals, he brings together two generations whose times did not connect.

The Russian Album

Russia

What do we need in order to survive? Whose needs do we have a right to speak for? Which needs can be satisfied through political actions, and which cannot?
To answer these vital questions, Michael Ignatieff returns to the ancient languages of religion, art, and tragedy—and to important texts by Shakespeare, St. Augustine, and the great writers of the Enlightenment.
Drawing on these sources, he has written an incisive, moving interpretation of community and democracy in a work that not only examines the breakdown of human solidarity but shows how it might be re-created. The Needs of Strangers restores philosophy to its proper place as a guide to the art of being human.

The Needs of Strangers: An Essay on Privacy, Solidarity, and the Politics of Being Human

Literature & Fiction

Short Stories & Anthologies

Penguin Publishing Group

Informed by diaries of many of the author's relatives, this volume represents a memoir of four generations of an aristocratic Russian family and a dramatic portrayal of Tsarist Russia, civil war, and exile

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Penguin??Books

Asya

At the heart of Michael Ignatieff's disquieting novel of a woman's descent into illness are the tangled threads of a family, strained by tragedy yet still tenuously connected. 
An anguished philosophy professor watches his dying mother's measured steps into the mysterious depths of neurological illness: the misplaced glasses, kitchen catastrophes, and anecdotes told over and over to a family overcome with fearful sympathy. His strenuous efforts to make sense of his mother's suffering lead him to learn all he can about her illness, renewing contact with his neurologist brother in the process. But medical science can do nothing to ease loss, and genetics now routinely predicts destinies that medicine is powerless to avert. More than a tale of isolated tragedy, Scar Tissue explores the fragile lines of memory, their configuration in identity, and the ways in which both are at one moment formed and the next shattered. Nominated for the Booker Prize, Scar Tissue is an intensely personal novel about family, love in all its guises, and the ultimate triumph of life over loss. Shortlisted for the 1993 Booker Prize "Ignatieff's novel impresses in its wisdom as much as in its restraint … This is a rich novel written by a magnanimous writer with an exquisite talent for naturalism."— The Times

Scar Tissue

Penguin Canada

Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism

Until the end of the Cold War, the politics of national identity was confined to isolated incidents of ethnics strife and civil war in distant countries. Now, with the collapse of Communist regimes across Europe and the loosening pf the Cold War'd clamp on East-West relations, a surge of nationalism has swept the world stage. In Blood and Belonging, Ignatieff makes a thorough examination of why blood ties--inplaces as diverse as Yugoslavia, Kurdistan, Northern Ireland, Quebec, Germany, and the former Soviet republics--may be the definitive factor in international relation today. He asks how ethnic pride turned into ethnic cleansing, whether modern citizens can lay the ghosts of a warring past, why--and whether--a people need a state of their own, and why armed struggle might be justified. Blood and Belonging is a profound and searching look at one of the most complex issues of our time.

Blood And Belonging: Journeys Into The New Nationalism

Politics & Government

The Russian Album takes us back through five generations to 1815. Focusing on his grandparents, Count Paul Ignatieff and Princess Natasha Mestchersky, Ignatieff recreates their lives before and during the Russian Revolution.

The Warrior's Honour is a profound and searching exploration of the troubled connection between the zones of safety and the zones of danger that configure the modern world. Reporting from places where ethnic conflict has become a way of life—from the West Bank to Bosnia, from Afghanistan to central Africa—Ignatieff brings astute analysis and insight to the complexity of the modern world. "Few have probed ethnic conflict more deeply than Michael Ignatieff ... The Warrior's Honour combines superior reporting with provocative and troubling insights."— The New York Review of Books
 "Ignatieff is a public intellectual at his journalistic best here, dedicating his academically trained mind to marshalling the facts, interpreting the world, and forcing us to care about horrors we might otherwise not see … The Warrior's Honour enlarges our understanding of the moral dilemmas of global society."— The Financial Post "Ignatieff grounds his painful insights and liberal analysis in a penetrating assemblage of facts, voices, and pathos that is worthy of comparison with the literary reportage of Rebecca West, Edmund Wilson, and Janet Flanner."— The Boston Globe

The Warriors Honour: Ethnic War And The Modern Conscience

Americas

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Virtual War

Blood and belonging: journeys into the new nationalism

The Russian Album

The Needs of Strangers: An Essay on Privacy, Solidarity, and the Politics of Being Human

The Russian Album

Asya

Scar Tissue

Blood And Belonging: Journeys Into The New Nationalism

The Russian Album

The Warriors Honour: Ethnic War And The Modern Conscience