The Kosovo Tragedy
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Author | : Ken Booth |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1136334831 |
The 1999 conflict in Kosovo is seen as being as significant for international affairs as the pulling down of the Berlin Wall, because of the centrality of human rights in the build-up, conduct and aftermath of the war. This volume is an attempt to explore this human rights tragedy.
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Total Pages | : 11 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Kosovo (Republic) |
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Author | : Ivo H. Daalder |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2004-05-13 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780815798422 |
After eleven weeks of bombing in the spring of 1999, the United States and NATO ultimately won the war in Kosovo. Serbian troops were forced to withdraw, enabling an international military and political presence to take charge in the region. But was this war inevitable or was it the product of failed western diplomacy prior to the conflict? And once it became necessary to use force, did NATO adopt a sound strategy to achieve its aims of stabilizing Kosovo? In this first in-depth study of the Kosovo crisis, Ivo Daalder and Michael O'Hanlon answer these and other questions about the causes, conduct, and consequences of the war. Based on interviews with many of the key participants, they conclude that notwithstanding important diplomatic mistakes before the conflict, it would have been difficult to avoid the Kosovo war. That being the case, U.S. and NATO conduct of the war left much to be desired. For more than four weeks, the Serbs succeeded where NATO failed, forcefully changing Kosovo's ethnic balance by forcing 1.5 million Albanians from their home and more than 800,000 from the country. Had they chosen to massacre more of their victims, NATO would have been powerless to stop them. In the end, NATO won the war by increasing the scope and intensity of bombing, making serious plans for a ground invasion, and moving diplomacy into full gear in order to convince Belgrade that this was a war Serbia would never win. The Kosovo crisis is a cautionary tale for those who believe force can be used easily and in limited increments to stop genocide, mass killing, and the forceful expulsion of entire populations. Daalder and O'Hanlon conclude that the crisis holds important diplomatic and military lessons that must be learned so that others in the future might avoid the mistakes that were made in this case.
Author | : Independent International Commission on Kosovo |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2000-10-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199243093 |
The war in Kosovo was a turning point: NATO deployed its armed forces in war for the first time, and placed the controversial doctrine of 'humanitarian intervention' squarely in the world's eye. It was an armed intervention for the purpose of implementing Security Council resolutions-but without Security Council authorization.This report tries to answer a number of burning questions, such as why the international community was unable to act earlier and prevent the escalation of the conflict, as well as focusing on the capacity of the United Nations to act as global peacekeeper.The Commission recommends a new status for Kosovo, 'conditional independence', with the goal of lasting peace and security for Kosovo-and for the Balkan region in general. But many of the conslusions may be beneficially applied to conflicts the world-over.
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Total Pages | : 18 |
Release | : 1999-01-01 |
Genre | : Civil rights |
ISBN | : 9780862102838 |
Author | : Julie Mertus |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 1999-08-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520218655 |
Explores the foundations of conflict in Kosovo, charging that the international community's failure to support the Albanians in their initial passive resistance to Serbian repression led to violence.
Author | : Philip Hammond |
Publisher | : Pluto Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2000-05-20 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780745316314 |
'Required reading for anyone wishing to understand the war and the media's role in it.' --The New Internationalist
Author | : Taufiq Ahmad Nizami |
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Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 2000 |
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Author | : Fred Abrahams |
Publisher | : Human Rights Watch |
Total Pages | : 622 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Albanians |
ISBN | : 9781564322647 |
Author | : David E. Kaiser |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 612 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780674006720 |
A re-creation of the deliberations, actions, and deceptions that brought two decades of post-World War II confidence to an end, this book offers an insight into the Vietnam War at home and abroad - and into American foreign policy in the 1960s.