This book provides a sociological account of the events in Bosnia in the 1990s, including ethnic cleansing, mass rape, and the role of political journalists. Drawing upon a diverse group of social theorists, including Merton, Weber, and Baudrillard, Sociology After Bosnia constructs a social understanding of the experiences of people in Bosnia and the response of Western leaders to these experiences. Beyond looking at the social causes of these events, Doubt sheds light on why Bosnia and Kosovo have largely been ignored by sociologists. He shows why the personal and social tragedies of people in Bosnia and Kosovo and the world's tolerance of these tragedies challenge contemporary sociological knowledge. Doubt argues that sociologists must be willing not only to recognize this challenge, but also to respond to it in order to construct meaningfully adequate accounts of war and genocide in a postmodern era. Doing so, he contends, may yield an important and needed reconsideration of the existing body of sociologicial knowledge and a revision of how this knowledge is applied.

"This brief work should be read not only by sociologists but by other social scientists such as historians, anthropologists, political scientists. The book is an extremely good text from which to debate some of the essence of sociological theory, and explian it, while focusing on real issues, not only of Bosnia and Kosovo, but, by extention, other fields of conflict in which TV, the press, and popular and immediate writing from public opinion." - H-Net: Humanities and Social Science Reviews Online

"Sociology after Bosnia and Kosovo is a powerful reminder that we need to continue to wrestle with the idea of justice, rather than setting for a facile pragmatism or cynicism that only contended with justice on a superficial level." - Human Rights Review

"This book is engaging and provocative." - Slavic Review