Nato's Balkan Interventions

by Allin,Dana H.

• ISBN13: 9780198516767
• ISBN10: 0198516762
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-08-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book is among the first - if not the first - to analyse an entire decade of debacles and successes from 1992 until 2002 as the Western powers agonized, bickered and finally successfully intervened in the Balkan conflicts that beset Bosnia, Kosovo and Macedonia.

Author Biography

Dana H. Allin is editor of Survival, and Senior Fellow for Transatlantic Affairs at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). A graduate of Yale University, he worked as a Europe-based financial journalist before earning an M.A. and Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University, Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He was visiting assistant professor in European Studies and American Foreign Policy at the SAIS centers in Bologna, Italy and Washington, D.C., a Robert Bosch Foundation Fellow, and Deputy Director of both the Aspen Institute Berlin and the International Commission on the Balkans (a joint project of Aspen Berlin and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace).

Table of Contents

Introduction	7	(6)
Bosnia and the Transatlantic Problem	13	(22)
The consequences of disunity	13	(2)
A common confusion	15	(9)
America's case against Europe	24	(3)
Europe's case against America	27	(3)
Lessons learned?	30	(5)
Dayton and the American Problem	35	(12)
Uncertainties of US engagement	36	(4)
Peace enforcement, 1995--2001	40	(7)
Kosovo and the Struggle for Unity	47	(22)
Taking sides	49	(4)
Force and diplomacy	53	(4)
The problem of legitimacy	57	(4)
War by committee	61	(3)
NATO transformed?	64	(5)
The Western Alliance and its Balkan Protectorates	69	(22)
Continuing conflicts	70	(13)
Post-war administrations	83	(3)
Long-term strategies	86	(5)
Conclusion	91	(10)
Hard choices: Macedonia, Kosovo and Bosnia	92	(6)
Interpreting NATO's Balkan interventions	98	(3)
Notes	101