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“Norris, now with the International Crisis Group, was Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott's communications director during the Clinton Administration. His book recounts the immediate genesis and outcome of the 1999 Kosovo crisis. The author has the advantage of an insider's experience....Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and practitioners.”–Choice
“Collision Course: NATO, Russia, and Kosovo tells the story of the real diplomacy behind the Kosova crisis....[n]o one has told this important story in more detail or uncovered so many points at which things went disastrously wrong.”–Times Literary Supplement (London)
“As communications director for U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, the lead American negotiator during the war, John Norris had a ringside seat for the diplomacy that ultimately produced a settlement. The story is a dramatic one, and Norris tells it well, drawing the reader into the web of relationships within and between the countries involved....Norris is particularly good at conveying just how grueling diplomacy can be. The number of flights that Talbott and his team took to Europe and Moscow, resulting in a marathon series of exhausting negotiations, is extraordinary....[e]ven readers familiar with the general contours of the Kosovo war will learn a great deal from an extraordinary tale-one that is told extraordinarily well.”–Political Science Quarterly
“[N]o one has pulled the war's tale together quite as Norris has--teaching even those who had central roles, such as the Finnish president, Martti Ahtisaari, things they id not know. Becuase NATO allies also often did not agree, and even the U.S. commander in Europe fought with the U.S. secretary of defense, it makes for a saga as tempestuous as it was crucial.”–Foreign Affairs
“[E]xamines the multilateral diplomacy surrounding the Kosovo war. Author John Norris was communications director for U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, the lead diplomat for the United States on the crisis, and his book provides a highly readable, blow-by-blow history of the diplomacy that sought to resolve the conflict. As presented by Norriss book, the Kosovo conflict suggests that aggressive multilateral diplomacy, coupled with the use of limited force, can perhaps solve such disputes, or at least prevent the worst outcomes for them.”–The Washington Diplomat
“[A]n important and exciting story told with verve and a lot of detail by the author....The debate will continue, and this interesting, well-researched book is a valuable addition to it.”–International Affairs
“Norris judges the diplomacy as largely successful, but offers cautionary notes about the fragility of alliances with Europe and the challenges of engaging Russia.”–Reference & Research Book News
“John Norris has succeeded in capturing the hectic space and special atmosphere of Kosovo negotiations in a remarkable manner. His book contains much new material even to the participant in the negotiation process.”–Martti Ahtisaari European Union Special Envoy to Kosovo
“John Norris has written a masterful account of a poorly understood yet critical piece of diplomacy between Americans, Europeans, and Russians conducted during the Kosovo war. Norris takes advantage of his keen analytical skills, his superb ability to tell a story, and his firsthand experiences in this historical drama to retrace the ebb and flow of disaster narrowly averted in U.S.-Russian relations. For anyone interested in how diplomacy is really practiced, this is a must read.”–Michael McFaul Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution Associate Professor of Political Science, Stanford University
“The definitive book on one of the most important American military actions since the end of the Cold War. Norris has told the story with a cinematic eye for the details of a roller coaster, high-stakes, ride-- climaxed by the astonishing confrontation that almost led to fighting between NATO and the Russians.”–Richard Holbrooke
“Collision Course: NATO, Russia, and Kosovo tells the story of the real diplomacy behind the Kosova crisis....[n]o one has told this important story in more detail or uncovered so many points at which things went disastrously wrong.”–
“As communications director for U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, the lead American negotiator during the war, John Norris had a ringside seat for the diplomacy that ultimately produced a settlement. The story is a dramatic one, and Norris tells it well, drawing the reader into the web of relationships within and between the countries involved....Norris is particularly good at conveying just how grueling diplomacy can be. The number of flights that Talbott and his team took to Europe and Moscow, resulting in a marathon series of exhausting negotiations, is extraordinary....[e]ven readers familiar with the general contours of the Kosovo war will learn a great deal from an extraordinary tale-one that is told extraordinarily well.”–
“[N]o one has pulled the war's tale together quite as Norris has--teaching even those who had central roles, such as the Finnish president, Martti Ahtisaari, things they id not know. Becuase NATO allies also often did not agree, and even the U.S. commander in Europe fought with the U.S. secretary of defense, it makes for a saga as tempestuous as it was crucial.”–
“[E]xamines the multilateral diplomacy surrounding the Kosovo war. Author John Norris was communications director for U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, the lead diplomat for the United States on the crisis, and his book provides a highly readable, blow-by-blow history of the diplomacy that sought to resolve the conflict. As presented by Norriss book, the Kosovo conflict suggests that aggressive multilateral diplomacy, coupled with the use of limited force, can perhaps solve such disputes, or at least prevent the worst outcomes for them.”–
“[A]n important and exciting story told with verve and a lot of detail by the author....The debate will continue, and this interesting, well-researched book is a valuable addition to it.”–
“Norris judges the diplomacy as largely successful, but offers cautionary notes about the fragility of alliances with Europe and the challenges of engaging Russia.”–
“John Norris has succeeded in capturing the hectic space and special atmosphere of Kosovo negotiations in a remarkable manner. His book contains much new material even to the participant in the negotiation process.”–
“John Norris has written a masterful account of a poorly understood yet critical piece of diplomacy between Americans, Europeans, and Russians conducted during the Kosovo war. Norris takes advantage of his keen analytical skills, his superb ability to tell a story, and his firsthand experiences in this historical drama to retrace the ebb and flow of disaster narrowly averted in U.S.-Russian relations. For anyone interested in how diplomacy is really practiced, this is a must read.”–
“The definitive book on one of the most important American military actions since the end of the Cold War. Norris has told the story with a cinematic eye for the details of a roller coaster, high-stakes, ride-- climaxed by the astonishing confrontation that almost led to fighting between NATO and the Russians.”–
Book Description
This authoritative history of the U.S.-led war in Kosovo in 1999 by a former State Department official goes behind the scenes of the life-and-death showdown between NATO and Slobodan Milosevic over the breakaway province of Kosovo.
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On March 23, 1999, the wheels were in motion for NATO to begin bombing Yugoslavia. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, General Clark, President Clinton, White House, President Yeltsin, Secretary Albright, United Nations, Security Council, Sandy Berger, Foreign Minister Ivanov, General Foglesong, President Ahtisaari, General Jackson, General Ivashov, Kosovar Albanians, Vice President Gore, Chancellor Schroeder, Jim Steinberg, State Department, Trojan Horse, Secretary of Defense Cohen, Leon Fuerth, Ambassador Collins, Great Britain, European Union New!
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United States, General Clark, President Clinton, White House, President Yeltsin, Secretary Albright, United Nations, Security Council, Sandy Berger, Foreign Minister Ivanov, General Foglesong, President Ahtisaari, General Jackson, General Ivashov, Kosovar Albanians, Vice President Gore, Chancellor Schroeder, Jim Steinberg, State Department, Trojan Horse, Secretary of Defense Cohen, Leon Fuerth, Ambassador Collins, Great Britain, European Union New!
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- Cold War by David Brierley in Back Matter
- The Other Balkan Wars by George Frost Kennan in Back Matter
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