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Based on primary sources, this book examines the 1995 Dayton Peace agreement, which ended the fighting in Bosnia, to show how American decision-making works on a complex issue. It takes a multidisciplinary approach and highlights both the capabilities and limitations of intelligence in the American foreign policy process.
List of contents
Foreword: Navigating from War to Peace: Enduring Challenges for Presidents and Citizens, Jonathan R. Alger
Chapter 1: The Historical and Bureaucratic Context of the Declassified Documents, Timothy R. Walton
Chapter 2: Beyond Bosnia: Ethnical Reasoning in Political Deliberations about Humanitarian Intervention, Pia Antolic-Piper, William Hawk, David McGraw, and Mark Piper
Chapter 3: New Lessons from the War in Bosnia - An Analysis Using Computational Methods, Anamaria Berea
Chapter 4: Conflict Frames and the Timing of U.S. Intervention in Bosnia, John Hulsey and John A. Scherpereel
Chapter 5: Analytic Intelligence and Bosnia Policymaking in the Clinton Administration, Steven L. Burg
Chapter 6: Explaining U.S. Foreign Policy toward Bosnia, 1993-95: National Identity, Credibility, and the 'Stalemate Machine', Bernd Kaussler, Jonathan Keller, and Yi Edward Yang
Chapter 7: Towards a New Social Memory of the Bosnian Genocide: Countering Al-Qaeda's Radicalization Myth with the CIA "Bosnia, Intelligence, and the Clinton Presidency" Archive, Frances Flannery
Chapter 8: The Impact of Intelligence on DOD Perceptions of the Bosnian Conflict, 1995, Jonathan Smith
Chapter 9: Fallen Off the Priority List: Was Srebrenica an Intelligence Failure?, Bob De Graaff and Cees Wiebes
Chapter 10: The Compromises Necessary to Get the Final Deal, Timothy R. Walton
Appendix: Principles Committee Meeting on Bosnia, February 5, 1993
About the author
Timothy R. Walton is associate professor of intelligence analysis at James Madison University.
Summary
Based on primary sources, this book examines the 1995 Dayton Peace agreement, which ended the fighting in Bosnia, to show how American decision-making works on a complex issue. It takes a multidisciplinary approach and highlights both the capabilities and limitations of intelligence in the American foreign policy process.
