Kosovo and International Society
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: October 11, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780333992609
Subjects: Civil war; European history: postwar, from c 1945 -; International relations; Peacekeeping operations; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; NATO; Serbia; Yugoslavia & former Yugoslavia; Eastern Europe - Balkan Republics; International Relations - General; Political Freedom & Security - International Secur; History-Eastern Europe - Balkan Republics; Political Science / International Relations; Political Science / International Security; Political Science-Political Freedom & Security - International Secur; Military & War; 1980-; Civil War, 1998-1999; Diplomatic history; Ethnic relations; History; Kosovo (Serbia)
First sentence: International society was made aware of the human rights problem in Kosovo in 1981, when the student riots in Pristina featured in Western newspapers.
Description: "This book asks how NATO came to launch its first war. It explains the international engagement with the Kosovo conflict from the dissolution of Yugoslavia to the end of Operation Allied Force in 1999. It begins by showing how diplomats and statesmen, led by British figures, deliberately excluded the Kosovo conflict from the search for peace. While Bosnia burned, those that argued that the same could happen in Kosovo were ignored. It goes on to show how the combination of New Labour in Britain and Madeleine Albright in the US led to the forging of a shaky alliance dedicated to the prevention of ethnic cleansing.

It charts diplomacy in the build-up to war, showing the pivotal role that Russia played, and exposes many of the myths that are now commonplace in public debates about the war."--Jacket.