Liberating Kosovo - Coercive Diplomacy and U. S. Intervention

Informationen zum Autor David L. Phillips is Director of the Program on Peace-Building and Rights at Columbia University¿s Institute for the Study of Human Rights and a Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School¿s Project on the Future of Diplomacy Klappentext In Liberating Kosovo, David Phillips offers a compelling account of the negotiations and military actions that culminated in Kosovo¿s independence. Drawing on his own participation in the diplomatic process and interviews with leading participants, Phillips chronicles Slobodan Milosevic¿s rise to power, the sufferings of the Kosovars, and the events that led to the disintegration of Yugoslavia. He analyzes how NATO, the United Nations, and the United States employed diplomacy, aerial bombing, and peacekeeping forces to set in motion the process that led to independence for Kosovo. He also offers important insights into a critical issue in contemporary international politics: how and when the United States, other nations, and NGOs should act to prevent ethnic cleansing and severe human-rights abuses.

Product details

• Authors: Phillips, David L. Phillips
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.07.2012
• EAN: 9780262018449
• ISBN: 978-0-262-01844-9
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Belfer Center Studies in International Security; Belfer Center Studies in International Security
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Social sciences, law, business > Political science