Kosovo and the Challenge of Humanitarian Intervention

by Schnabel, Albrecht; Thakur, Ramesh Chandra

• ISBN13: 9789280810509
• ISBN10: 9280810502
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-12-01
• Publisher: United Nations Univ

Summary

The Kosovo conflict has the potential to redraw the landscape of international politics, with significant ramifications for the UN, major powers, regional organizations, and the way in which we understand and interpret world politics. This book offers interpretations of the Kosovo crisis from numerous perspectives: the conflict-parties, NATO allies, the immediate region surrounding the conflict, and further afield. Country perspectives are followed by scholarly analyses of the longer-term normative, operational, and structural consequences of the Kosovo crisis for world politics.

Table of Contents

List of tables and figures	ix
Acknowledgements	xi
Kosovo, the changing contours of world politics, and the challenge of world order	1	(16)
Albrecht Schnabel
Ramesh Thakur
Part One: The Kosovo crisis	17	(66)
Kosovo in the twentieth century: A historical account	19	(13)
Marie-Janine Calic
The Kosovo conflict: A perspective from inside	32	(12)
Agon Demjaha
The closing of the Kosovo cycle: Victimization versus responsibility	44	(20)
Duska Anastasijevic
The Kosovo conflict: The Balkans and the Southern Caucasus	64	(19)
George Khutsishvili
Albrecht Schnabel
Part Two: The major players	83	(66)
The costs of victory: American power and the use of force in the contemporary order	85	(16)
G. John Ikenberry
Russia: Reassessing national interests	101	(16)
Vladimir Baranovsky
China: Whither the world order after Kosovo?	117	(11)
Zhang Yunling
The major European allies: France, Germany, and the United Kingdom	128	(21)
Simon Duke
Hans-Georg Ehrhart
Matthias Karadi
Part Three: Views from NATO allies	149	(64)
The Nordic countries: Whither the West's conscience?	151	(15)
Bjorn Moller
The Southern Flank: Italy, Greece, Turkey	166	(15)
Georgios Kostakos
Kosovo and the case of the (not so) free riders: Portugal, Belgium, Canada, and Spain	181	(20)
David G. Haglund
Allen Sens
The new entrants: Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic	201	(12)
Peter Talas
Laszlo Valki
Part Four: Selected international perspectives	213	(58)
The Muslim world: Uneasy ambivalence	215	(8)
Ibrahim A. Karawan
Latin America: The dilemmas of intervention	223	(22)
Monica Serrano
South Africa: The demand for legitimate multilateralism	245	(15)
Philip Nel
India: An uneasy precedent	260	(11)
Satish Nambiar
Part Five: Challenges of the post-war order	271	(74)
NATO: From collective defence to peace enforcement	273	(18)
Nicola Butler
The United Nations system and the Kosovo crisis	291	(28)
A. J. R. Groom
Paul Taylor
The concept of humanitarian intervention revisited	319	(15)
James Mayall
The concept of sovereignty revisited	334	(11)
Alan James
Part Six: Opinion, media, civil society	345	(58)
Analogies at war: The United States, the conflict in Kosovo, and the uses of history	347	(13)
George C. Herring
Media coverage of the war: An empirical assessment	360	(25)
Steven Livingston
Effective indignation? Building global awareness, NGOs, and the enforcement of norms	385	(18)
Felice Gaer
Part Seven: Force, diplomacy, and the international community..	403	(102)
The inevitability of selective response? Principles to guide urgent international action	405	(15)
Lori Fisler Damrosch
The split-screen war: Kosovo and changing concepts of the use of force	420	(13)
Lawrence Freedman
Military history overturned: Did air power win the war?	433	(15)
Ray Funnell
Force, diplomacy, and norms	448	(15)
Coral Bell
Solidarity versus geostrategy: Kosovo and the dilemmas of international democratic culture	463	(19)
Jean-Marc Coicaud
The good international citizen and the crisis in Kosovo	482	(14)
Andrew Linklater
Unbridled humanitarianism: Between justice, power, and authority	496	(9)
Ramesh Thakur
Albrecht Schnabel
List of contributors	505	(10)
Index	515