The Kosovo Crisis And The Evolution Of A Post Cold War European Security

Author : Paul Latawski,Martin A. Smith
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0719059801

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The Kosovo Crisis by Paul Latawski,Martin A. Smith Pdf

This book looks at the legacy of the 1998-99 Kosovo crisis for European security affairs. It examines the debates about the nature and justification of intervention in the affairs of sovereign states. It also considers the impact of the crisis on NATO and on relations between western states and Russia both during and since Kosovo. Well-known "facts" are critically assessed and challenged. The authors argue that the NATO attacks on Serbia were not a "war," nor did the crisis directly lead to moves to endow the European Union with its own military dimension. They place the Kosovo crisis in the context of the long-term evolution of a transatlantic "community of values" between Europe and North America.

Author : Paul Chester Latawski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Europe
ISBN : LCCN:2022667412

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The Kosovo Crisis and the Evolution of Post-Cold War European Security by Paul Chester Latawski Pdf

Author : Paul Chester Latawski,Martin A. Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Kosovo (Republic)
ISBN : 152613778X

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The Kosovo Crisis and the Evolution of a Post-Cold War European Security by Paul Chester Latawski,Martin A. Smith Pdf

This book looks at the legacy of the 1998-99 Kosovo crisis for European security affairs. It examines the debates about the nature and justification of intervention in the affairs of sovereign states. It also considers the impact of the crisis on NATO and on relations between western states and Russia both during and since Kosovo. Well-known 'facts' are critically assessed and challenged. The authors argue, for example, that the NATO attacks on Serbia were not a 'war', nor did the crisis directly lead to moves to endow the European Union with its own military dimension. The authors also look at key issues and debates that have, so far, often been neglected. They consider the difficulties of entrenching 'western' norms and values in areas where ethnic conceptions of national identity are dominant. They also place the Kosovo crisis in the context of the long-term evolution of a transatlantic 'community of values' between Europe and North America.

Author : Peter Van Ham,Sergei Medvedev
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2002-10-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0719062403

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Mapping European Security After Kosovo by Peter Van Ham,Sergei Medvedev Pdf

This book provides new and stimulating perspectives on how Kosovo has shaped the new Europe. It breaks down traditional assumptions in the field of security studies by sidelining the theoretical worldview that underlies mainstream strategic thinking on recent events in Kosovo. The contributors challenge the epistemological definition of the Kosovo conflict, arguing that we should not only be concerned with the 'Kosovo out there', but also with the debate about what counts as security, and how our definition of security is shaped by various power and knowledge interests in Kosovo.

Author : Mary Buckley,Sally Cummings
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0826456707

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Kosovo by Mary Buckley,Sally Cummings Pdf

Nato intervention in Kosovo marked a major turning point in post cold war international relations. While some western commentators argued that it was the first war to be fought on purely moral grounds, Serbian, Russian and Chinese assessments were sharply different.This highly original addition to the literature on Kosovo highlights the importance of perspective to an understanding of both the causes and consequences of war. It makes clear that the conceptual lenses, paradigms or frameworks through which political actors view reality in turn affect their understanding of the behaviour of others and their reactions to it. The authors, a team of regional experts on the countries covered, examine the way the war has been understood in countries involved in and peripheral to the conflict. Their aim is to provide a broad yet highly nuanced picture of this focal point of Balkan unrest.The book opens with an introduction to the historical and regional context of the conflict. The authors go on to present twelve case-studies, ranging from Serbia, and the other former Yugoslav republics, to the USA and to China. These detailed regional studies highlight the considerable variation in the key states' perceptions of their national interest and their perceptions of what constitutes legality or legitimacy. In each case, domestic constraints are explored and the ways in which differing perspectives of political and military leadership fed into the crisis are examined. Further thematic chapters determine the war's consequences and the lessons to be drawn in terms of the wider issues of refugees, humanitarian intervention, European security, and geopolitics.

Author : Tom Lansford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351768719

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Evolution and Devolution by Tom Lansford Pdf

This title was first published in 2000: This study bridges the gap in the otherwise rich literature on European security through its analysis of past and present efforts at military integration. Previous works have concentrated on the transatlantic relationship or the intra-European dimension of the effort to create autonomous defense capabilities or even on the ramifications of the changed defense market. Evolution and Devolution combines these themes and subjects. The work integrates these topics against the backdrop of the current scholarly debate over international relations by examining the changing nature of sovereignty and the evolution of the nation state. In the end, the course toward more integration and yet continued participation of the U.S., is shown to be the optimum course for EU member states in light of the security threats and constraints facing national governments.

Author : Mary Troy Johnson,Janet Adamski,Cristina M. Schweiss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351152181

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Old Europe, New Security by Mary Troy Johnson,Janet Adamski,Cristina M. Schweiss Pdf

Many of the US criticisms of Western European reluctance to engage in the 2004 war in Iraq stem from a perception that these governments are 'weak on defence' or unwilling to 'pull their own weight' in the international system. Secretary Rumsfeld pejoratively designated traditional Atlantic Alliance allies as 'Old Europe', to distinguish them from the freshly minted, cooperative states of 'New Europe'. In doing so, Rumsfeld accused 'Old Europe' of yet again relying on the United States to solve shared security problems. This volume critically evaluates the validity of this view of Western European choices and policies. Rather than a primary reliance on military force as first line defence, it proposes that Western European governments are expanding the set of tools they have to apply to the post-Cold War array of security and defence problems. The volume examines the emergent European security approach from multiple perspectives, in multiple institutions and identities, and in different geographic contexts.

Author : Emma J. Stewart
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Law
ISBN : 3825891143

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The European Union and Conflict Prevention by Emma J. Stewart Pdf

The book examines the evolution of EU conflict prevention as an internal EU process and as an area of external cooperation with the UN, OSCE and NATO. Conflict prevention has emerged as a prominent EU policy in the post-Cold War era. Yet, how suited is the organisation to practice conflict prevention, and what does the record of cooperation with other key European organisations tell us about the EU's external priorities? The book critically analyses the EU's policy and outcomes to date, concluding that conflict prevention is underdeveloped by the EU, and is in danger of being marginalised in favour of shorter-term crisis management. Moreover, EU external cooperation reinforces this: the priority is cooperation in crisis management with the UN and NATO, rather than longer-term cooperation with the OSCE.

Author : Kurt R. Spillmann
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 3906765164

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Kosovo by Kurt R. Spillmann Pdf

The Kosovo crisis of 1999 was one of the most challenging events for cooperative security. Since the end of the Cold War, the European states, the United States and Canada have made progress in devising a new security architecture. However, the wars in the former Yugoslavia seemed to indicate that the new international order was not able to live up to its expectations. For the fourth time in eight years the Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic and those political forces he stands for tried to resolve an ethnic problem by means of ethnic cleansing. Unlike in Bosnia-Herzegovina or in Croatia, the Western world reacted with much more determination and resolve. The outcome was an accord that was made in early June 1999 and which has to be seen against the backdrop of a major international crisis. This book critically examines the various efforts to resolve the Kosovo problem by ways of cooperative security. It also deals with the problems that started after the agreement of 9 June 1999. Furthermore, it tries to shed light on the broader regional and international aspects of that crisis.

Author : P. Terrence Hopmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Conflict management
ISBN : IND:30000062953017

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Building Security in Post-Cold War Eurasia by P. Terrence Hopmann Pdf

Author : Frederic Merand,Martial Foucault,Bastien Irondelle
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442693937

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European Security since the Fall of the Berlin Wall by Frederic Merand,Martial Foucault,Bastien Irondelle Pdf

There have been dramatic changes to the landscape of European security in the twenty years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. The essays in European Security Since the Fall of the Berlin Wall collectively take stock of how approaches to security in Europe have changed, both in practice and in theory, since the end of the Cold War. Organized into three sections, this collection begins with an exploration of the broad changes in Europe's security environment relating to issues such as terrorism and the rising importance of energy security. The second section describes the adaptations of Europe's institutional framework, including the transformation of NATO and the evolution of European armed forces, while the closing essays examine regional security issues with the Middle East, the Balkans, and Russia. Covering a broad spectrum of theoretical approaches and written in a clear, engaging style, European Security Since the Fall of the Berlin Wall will illuminate European security debates for years to come.

Author : M. Webber,J. Sperling,M. Smith
Publisher : Springer
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137271617

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NATO’s Post-Cold War Trajectory by M. Webber,J. Sperling,M. Smith Pdf

Two decades since the watershed of the Cold War, this book investigates NATO's staying power. This book investigates how the Alliance has adapted and managed to attend to new roles and purposes through the lens of International Relations theory. The Alliance will continue, but will remain subject to ongoing crises and challenges of change.

Author : Albrecht Schnabel,Ramesh Chandra Thakur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0585433801

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Kosovo and the Challenge of Humanitarian Intervention by Albrecht Schnabel,Ramesh Chandra Thakur Pdf

The Kosovo conflict has the potential to redraw the landscape of international politics, with significant ramifications for the UN, major powers, regional organizations, and the way in which we understand and interpret world politics. Can the veto now effectively be circumvented to launch selective enforcement operations? Can the humanitarian imperative be reconciled with the principle of state sovereignty? This book offers interpretations of the Kosovo crisis from numerous perspectives: the conflict-parties, NATO allies, the immediate region surrounding the conflict, and further afield. Country perspectives are followed by scholarly analyses of the longer-term normative, operational, and structural consequences of the Kosovo crisis for world politics.

Author : L. Watanabe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230277021

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Securing Europe by L. Watanabe Pdf

Securing Europe takes a novel approach to Europeanization among EU member states by employing a sociological institutionalist approach. Watanabe argues that Europeanization as a process of change takes place not as a result of rationally calculating states, but as a result of the reworking of perceptual and normative frameworks.

Author : Julie Garey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030136758

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The US Role in NATO’s Survival After the Cold War by Julie Garey Pdf

This book takes a new approach to answering the question of how NATO survived after the Cold War by examining its complex relationship with the United States. A closer look at major NATO engagements in the post-Cold War era, including in the Balkans, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya, reveals how the US helped comprehensively reshape the alliance. In every conflict, there was tension between the United States and its allies over mission leadership, political support, legal precedents, military capabilities, and financial contributions. The author explores why allied actions resulted in both praise and criticism of NATO’s contributions from American policymakers, and why despite all of this and the growing concern over the alliance’s perceived shortcomings the United States continued to support the alliance. In addition to demonstrating the American influence on the alliance, this works demonstrates why NATO’s survival is beneficial to US interests.