NATO in the Balkans: Between failure and disaster

One year after the start of the war over Kosovo, it is clear that those who thought they understood the Balkans were sadly wrong. A graveyard for would-be statesmen throughout the twentieth century, the Balkans throws up a difficulty for every solution. NATO’s effective choices in Kosovo seem to have been reduced today to policy failure (abandon the dream of a multi-ethnic society living peacefully together) or policy disaster (be drawn increasingly into a quagmire that turns NATO into an object of hatred and attacks by both sides).

Related Subject(s): Human Rights and Refugees