Kosovo: Supervision and Punishment as Hybris Aspects od Serbian Territorialism and American Globalism
Kosovo: Supervision and Punishment as Hybris Aspects od Serbian Territorialism and American Globalism

Summary/Abstract: The author will try to analyse, what he believes, constitute two self-delusions of the great majority of Western Intellectuals and opinion-leaders – he is referring more specifically to that ever-widening section of experts and professional intellectuals organically linked with the state, the media and international organizations. First major Delusion among many European Intellectuals, sincere, honest and not associated with specific interests-state, media or military industrial: they took for granted NATO declarations and rhetoric, as if they reflected their own way and structure of thinking on Human Rights, as if they reflected their own concerns (or even agony) for the perpetrated ethnic cleansing in Kosovo- Those intellectuals faced, therefore, NATO political and military leaders as if they were themselves thinking in identical terms with their own assumed clear rationality springing from the application of "pure reason". They were thus, led to support the decision by NATO to use military means succumbing unconsciously to what Immanuel Wallerstein some years ago termed "the hypocrisy of American Kantianism". The second collective self-delusion- of most European intellectuals and a much graver than the first one, is that they came to unconditionally believe that the violation of Human rights (Ethnic cleansing) in Kosovo constituted in reality if not the sole, certainly the most important cause of the military "intervention". Main parts of the study are: [A] Nationalism and ethnic cleansing in Yugoslavia [B] NATO declarative rhetorics [C] The legitimating argumentation for military intervention, or the lack of it [D] Western entanglement in Yugoslavia: from indifference to polarization and war [E] Determining conjectural, political and economic factors like additional keys for an interpretation [F] Kosovo war perspectives on "democracy", "autonomy" and "civil society" (east and west).

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