This book examines how and why the United States, Britain, France, and Germany failed to cope with the collapse of Yugoslavia and its descent into a savage civil war. This failure also shattered long-cherished notions about how the UN, NATO, and the European Community would deal with such a crisis and prompted a drastic reassessment of their roles. Gow demonstrates that the lack of timing, bad judgment, poor cohesion, and absence of political will over the use of force were the fundamental reasons for this failure.
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The best treatment yet of the interplay between the international players and the events on the ground. The book would be useful in any classes dealing with Bosnia, Yugoslavia in general, the UN and peacekeeping, ethnic conflict, and the foreign policy of the EU and its members. -- Warren Zimmerman editor of Origins of a Catastrophe
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international handling, republics seeking independence, international diplomatic efforts, civilian implementation, air exclusion zone, international stake, international failure, ethnic purification, using air power, proximity talks, peace support operation, international involvement, preventive deployment, progressive implementation, territorial contiguity, international diplomacy, implementation force, forceful approach, international personality, ceasefire agreement Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Security Council, Bosnian Serbs, Cold War, Soviet Union, Contact Group, New York, Russian Federation, James Gow, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Lord Owen, Bosnian President, Lord Carrington, Dayton Accords, European Community, United Nations, United States, Banja Luka, Bosnian Croats, Lawrence Freedman, Research Report, Douglas Hurd, President Clinton, Broken Bonds, Clinton Administration, Parliamentary Assembly New!
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international handling, republics seeking independence, international diplomatic efforts, civilian implementation, air exclusion zone, international stake, international failure, ethnic purification, using air power, proximity talks, peace support operation, international involvement, preventive deployment, progressive implementation, territorial contiguity, international diplomacy, implementation force, forceful approach, international personality, ceasefire agreement Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Security Council, Bosnian Serbs, Cold War, Soviet Union, Contact Group, New York, Russian Federation, James Gow, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Lord Owen, Bosnian President, Lord Carrington, Dayton Accords, European Community, United Nations, United States, Banja Luka, Bosnian Croats, Lawrence Freedman, Research Report, Douglas Hurd, President Clinton, Broken Bonds, Clinton Administration, Parliamentary Assembly New!
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