Recommended Reading List

History of Bosnia

  • Bosnia: A Short History, Noel Malcolm
  • Bosnia and Hercegovina: A Tradition Betrayed, Robert Donia and John Fine
  • The History of Bosnia: From the Middle Ages to the Present DayMarko Atilla Hoare

United States – Bosnia Relations

  • Getting to Dayton: The Making of America’s Bosnia Policy, Ivo Daalder
  • Promises to Keep (chapters 14 & 15), Joe Biden
  • The Sit Room: In the Theater of War and Peace, David Scheffer

Bosnia Today

  • Bosnia Remade: Ethnic Cleansing and its Reversal, Gerard Toal and Carl T. Dahlman
  • The Bosniaks: Nationhood After Genocide, Jasmin Mujanović
  • Surviving the Peace: The Struggle for Postwar Recovery in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Peter Lippman

Bosnian Genocide

  • The Last Refuge: A True Story of War, Survival and Life Under Siege in Srebrenica, Hasan Nuhanović
  • Postcards from the Grave, Emir Suljagić
  • Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War, Peter Maass
  • A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, Samantha Power
  • Endgame: The Betrayal and Fall of Srebrenica, David Rohde

The Breakup of Yugoslavia

  • The Destruction of Yugoslavia: Tracking the Break-up 1980-92, Branka Magaš
  • The Hour of Europe: Western Powers and the Breakup of Yugoslavia, Josip Glaurdić
  • Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation, Laura Silber and Allan Little
  • How Bosnia Armed: The Birth and Rise of the Bosnian Army, Marko Atilla Hoare

The Balkans Beyond Bosnia

  • The Balkans: A Short History, Mark Mazower
  • Imagining the Balkans, Maria Todorova
  • Kosovo: A Short History, Noel Malcolm

Film and Visual Arts