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Bombs for Peace : NATO's Humanitarian War on Yugoslavia / George Szamuely.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (586 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789089645630
  • 9789048519675
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 949.703
LOC classification:
  • DR1319 .S93 2013
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Yugoslavia: Destroying States for Fun and for Profit -- 2. In Search of the Good War 121 Bosnia: April 1992 to May 1993 -- 3. Peacemaking v. Humanitarianism 187 Bosnia and Croatia: June 1993 to December 1995 -- 4. Humanitarianism Fulfilled 271 Bosnia’s Unsafe Areas -- 5. Kosovo: The Denial of Sovereignty -- 6. Kosovo: The set-up -- 7. Kosovo: Standing up to the Yugoslav Goliath -- Conclusions Ensuring Success by Lowering Standards -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index
Summary: In the late 1990s NATO dropped bombs and supported armed insurgencies in Yugoslavia while insisting that its motives were purely humanitarian and that its only goal was peace. However, George Szamuely argues that NATO interventions actually prolonged conflicts, heightened enmity, increased casualties, and fueled demands for more interventions. Eschewing the one-sided approach adopted by previous works on the Yugoslavian crisis, Szamuely offers a broad overview of the conflict, its role in the rise of NATO’s authority, and its influence on Western policy on the Balkans. His timely, judicious, and accessible study sheds new light on the roots of the contemporary doctrine of humanitarian intervention.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Yugoslavia: Destroying States for Fun and for Profit -- 2. In Search of the Good War 121 Bosnia: April 1992 to May 1993 -- 3. Peacemaking v. Humanitarianism 187 Bosnia and Croatia: June 1993 to December 1995 -- 4. Humanitarianism Fulfilled 271 Bosnia’s Unsafe Areas -- 5. Kosovo: The Denial of Sovereignty -- 6. Kosovo: The set-up -- 7. Kosovo: Standing up to the Yugoslav Goliath -- Conclusions Ensuring Success by Lowering Standards -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index

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In the late 1990s NATO dropped bombs and supported armed insurgencies in Yugoslavia while insisting that its motives were purely humanitarian and that its only goal was peace. However, George Szamuely argues that NATO interventions actually prolonged conflicts, heightened enmity, increased casualties, and fueled demands for more interventions. Eschewing the one-sided approach adopted by previous works on the Yugoslavian crisis, Szamuely offers a broad overview of the conflict, its role in the rise of NATO’s authority, and its influence on Western policy on the Balkans. His timely, judicious, and accessible study sheds new light on the roots of the contemporary doctrine of humanitarian intervention.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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