Stjepan Meštrović

Stjepan Gabriel Meštrović (born 1955) is an Croatian American sociologist.^[1] He is professor of sociology at Texas A&M University.^[2] Meštrović has served as an expert witness in war crimes trials, including at the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse case.^[3] He has written over 15 books.^[3]

Meštrović was born in Croatia and moved to the United States when he was eight years old.^[3] He holds three degrees from Harvard University and a Ph.D. degree from Syracuse University. He began teaching at A&M University in 1986.^[3] His father is Croatian lobbyist and politician Mate Meštrović. He is a grandson of the Croatian sculptor Ivan Meštrović.^[4]

Selected works

• Durkheim and Postmodern Culture (Routledge, 1992). ISBN 978-0-2023-0440-3
• Emile Durkheim and the Reformation of Sociology (Rowman & Littlefield, 1993). ISBN 978-0-8476-7867-9
• Genocide after Emotion: The Post-Emotional Balkan War (Routledge, 1996). ISBN 978-0-4151-2294-8
• This Time We Knew: Western Responses to Genocide in Bosnia, co-edited with Thomas Cushman (NYU Press, 1996). ISBN 978-0-8147-1535-2
• Postemotional Society (SAGE, 1997). ISBN 978-0-7619-5129-2
• Anthony Giddens: The Last Modernist (Taylor & Francis, 1998). ISBN 978-0-4150-9573-0
• Trials of Abu Ghraib: An Expert Witness Account of Shame and Honor (Routledge, 2006). ISBN 978-1-5945-1334-3
• The Good Soldier on Trial: A Sociological Study of Misconduct by the Us Military Pertaining to Operation Iron Triangle, Iraq (Algora Publishing, 2009). ISBN 978-0-8758-6742-7
• Strike and Destroy: When Counter-insurgency (COIN) Doctrine Met Hellraisers Brigade Or, the Fate of Corporal Morlock (Algora Publishing, 2012). ISBN 978-0-8758-6910-0
• The Postemotional Bully (SAGE, 2015). ISBN 978-1-4739-1098-0

See also

• Yugoslav Wars
• Texas A&M University
• Ivan Meštrović

References

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