Introduction I Theoretical and Conceptual Foundations 1 Identity, Values and Memory 1.1 Collective Identity 1.2 Value-Based Identity 1.3 Collective Memory 1.4 European Identity 1.5 Political Ideologies 1.6 Public Sphere 2 Choosing the Cases for Analysis and Measuring Identity 2.1 Country Selection 2.2 1990 to 2006: Interventions and Genocides 2.3 Data Collection and Sampling 2.4 Methods 2.5 Operationalization II Empirical Results 3 Bosnia in the Context of Military Interventions 3.1 Bosnia in the Overall Debate on War and Intervention 3.2 The Yugoslav Wars in the Intervention Debate 3.3 Checking Hypotheses on the Intervention Debate 3.4 Summary 4 Focus on Srebrenica 4.1 War in Yugoslavia and Genocide in Srebrenica 4.2 Comparing Srebrenica 4.3 The Srebrenica Debate 4.4 Summary 5 Srebrenica in Collective Memory 5.1 Context and Content of Srebrenica in Collective Memory 5.2 Srebrenica Mentioned with Other Wars 5.3 Srebrenica Traveling 5.4 Srebrenica as a Symbol 5.5 Srebrenica as a Historic Event 5.6 Summary Conclusions Bibliography Appendix ; The war in Yugoslavia horribly showed that fifty years after the end of Nazi reign the vow to never again let happen a genocide was broken in Europe, too. In my dissertation project, I analyze whether there was a European reaction to this genocide and war which relied on identity framing. Such identity relevance could have been expected for Europeans in particularly since the integration process is designed to overcome the continent's violent past of nationalist wars and terror. For the theory, I rely on constructivist approaches to identity formation and formulate hypotheses for identity-related reactions which are tested with quantitative-qualitative frame analyses and corpus-linguistics. I consider articles from two French, German, Dutch and American newspapers which focus on interventions and were published between 1990 and 2006 to find out what causes identity-related reactions in the public debate. For the same newspapers and time period, I examine the debate on ...