Stjepan Meštrović

Stjepan Gabriel Meštrović (born 1955) is a Croatian American sociologist. He is professor of sociology at Texas A&M University. Meštrović has served as an expert witness in war crimes trials, including at the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse case. He holds three degrees from Harvard University and a Ph.D. degree from Syracuse University. He began teaching at A&M University in 1986.

Selected works Durkheim and Postmodern Culture (Routledge, 1992). Emile Durkheim and the Reformation of Sociology (Rowman & Littlefield, 1993). Genocide after Emotion: The Post-Emotional Balkan War (Routledge, 1996). Balkanization of the West: The Confluence of Postmodernism and Postcommunism (Routledge, 1993). This Time We Knew: Western Responses to Genocide in Bosnia, co-edited with Thomas Cushman (NYU Press, 1996). Postemotional Society (SAGE, 1997). Anthony Giddens: The Last Modernist (Taylor & Francis, 1998). Trials of Abu Ghraib: An Expert Witness Account of Shame and Honor (Routledge, 2006). The Good Soldier on Trial: A Sociological Study of Misconduct by the Us Military Pertaining to Operation Iron Triangle, Iraq (Algora Publishing, 2009). Strike and Destroy: When Counter-insurgency (COIN) Doctrine Met Hellraisers Brigade Or, the Fate of Corporal Morlock (Algora Publishing, 2012). The Postemotional Bully (SAGE, 2015).