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Informationen zum Autor Richard Caplan is Lecturer in International Relations and Fellow of Linacre College, University of Oxford. He has published widely on international organisations and conflict management, European security and defence policy, and the crises in the former Yugoslavia. He is the author of International Governance of War-Torn Territories (2005) and co-editor of Europe's New Nationalism: States and Minorities in Conflict (1996) and State of the Union: The Clinton Administration and the Nation in Profile (1994). Klappentext European recognition remains one of the most controversial issues in the Yugoslav crisis. Richard Caplan analyzes the highly assertive role that Germany played! the reputedly catastrophic consequences of recognition and the radical departure from customary state practice represented by the EC's use of political criteria as the basis of recognition. Caplan also explores the wider implications of the EC's actions! offering insights into European security policy at the end of the Cold War! the relationship of international law to international relations and the management of ethnic conflict. Zusammenfassung Europe's recognition of new states in Yugoslavia remains one of the most controversial episodes in the Yugoslav crisis. Richard Caplan offers a detailed narrative of events! examining the strategic logic and consequences of the EC's actions as well as exploring the wider implications. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The EC's recognition policy: origins and terms of reference; 2. Recognition of states: legal thinking and historic practice; 3. International law, international relations and the recognition of states; 4. EC recognition of new states in Yugoslavia: the strategic consequences; 5. Political conditionality and conflict management; Conclusion; Appendices: EPC Declaration on the Recognition of New States in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union (16 December 1991); EPC Declaration on Yugoslavia (16 December 1991); Treaty Provisions for the Convention (at 4 November 1991); Bibliography; Index....
