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...Gordon N. Bardos Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2005 Gordon N. Bardos is assistant director of the Harriman Institute at Columbia University. Containing Kosovo Gordon N. Bardos The international community’s fi ve-year performance review...

... College, Oxford. Kosovo: A Critique of a Failed Mission Denis Magalachvili On 17 and 18 March 2004, and the days immediately following, much of Kosovo exploded in a spasm of violence that left death and wanton destruc- tion in its wake. Also destroyed was much...

...Gordon N. Bardos The support of the United States and some European Union countries for Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence has in many ways contributed to a deterioration of the security situation in southeastern Europe. The fundamental strategic assumption of promoters of Kosovo's...

...Doug Bandow For the past decade, the United States has been promoting national transformation in the Balkans. In pushing the independence of Kosovo, Washington policy makers apparently believed that Serbia would acquiesce, most nations would recognize the newest independent state, and Russia would...

...Vasil Tuporkoski Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2003 Vasil Tuporkoski is professor of international law at the University of Skopje. Is the War in Kosovo the Last Balkan War? Vasil Tuporkoski The dissolution of former Yugoslavia, having taken a radical...

...Tom Campbell Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2000 Tom Campbell, Republican of California, is a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and a professor of law at Stanford University. MQ 11.1-01 Campbell 1/19/00 1:11 PM Page 1 Kosovo—An Unconstitutional War...

...: From Kosovo to Kashmir Prem Shankar Jha Ever since the Nuremberg trials, the basic pillars of the Westphalian state—sovereignty within domestic jurisdictions and noninterference in the internal affairs of other states...

...Andreas Heinemann-Grüder Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2001 Andreas Heinemann-Grüder is senior research analyst at the Bonn International Center for Conversion. MQ 12.3-03 HG 7/20/01 11:23 AM Page 31 Germany’s Anti-Hitler Coalition in Kosovo...

...Ted Galen Carpenter Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2002 Ted Galen Carpenter is vice president for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute. Kosovo and Macedonia: The West Enhances the Threat Ted Galen Carpenter...

... as Yugoslavia disintegrated. However, this victory came at a price. Schengen countries worried that the lifting of the visa barrier would trigger a flood of illegal workers and asylum seekers from Kosovo. The Serbian government, which considers Kosovo to be an autonomous province, had to come up...

...Ted Galen Carpenter Washington’s policy in the Balkans has been a failure for more than two decades. Beginning with the US-led military interventions in Bosnia and Kosovo during the 1990s, the United States and its North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies have made difficult situations worse...

... relations from Salve Regina University. From July 2003 until January 2004 he served as a UN military observer in Kosovo. Symeon Giannakos is associate professor and director of the graduate program in international relations at Salve Regina University, Newport, Rhode Island...

... that the United States and its principal European allies have adopted. Several of those policies threaten to reignite Balkan controversies and usher in another era of turbulence. Four developments are especially worrisome: (1) Western support for Kosovo’s independence, (2) an attempt to modify the deli...

... on two regions nearest and dearest to Serbia: Kosovo and Montenegro. The effect in Kosovo, jointly administered and controlled by North Atlantic Treaty Organization troops under its Kosovo Force (KFOR) and the United Nations Interim Administration...

... been an unmitigated disaster. It failed to achieve any of its claimed objectives, it caused a humanitarian disaster in both Yugoslavia and Kosovo, and it destabilized the Balkans and paved the way for further bloodshed and violence. Even more seriously...

... rights policy on a global scale. The president assured his Kosovar audience that the United States would in the future be prepared to intervene, where required, with military force to end atrocities of the type experienced in Kosovo. Coming in the aftermath...

... goals of questionable logic, merit, or morality has been in evi- dence since the Bosnian conflict of the early 1990s through to the more recent Kosovo and Macedonian conflicts. The 11 September 2001 attacks on New York’s World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., however, should now...

... already swept millions of Croats, Serbs, and Muslims out of their homes. Now, two wars later, the United States is participating in the international equivalent of annual charity drives: a “donors conference” for Kosovo recov- ery, held in Brussels...

... with the norms of inter- national law. None of this happened. Instead we still see self-proclaimed victims, in the Balkans and elsewhere, engaging in terrorist acts for the benefit of CNN, expecting a Kosovo-like solution of internal problems. The NATO...

...Melissa McConnell Foreign policy capacity is defined as dynamic, information-based adaptation by nation-states in complex, ambiguous environments that involve their domestic systems as well as external variables. On questions of Bosnia and Kosovo, Serbia's policy capacity is weakened by lack...