The Kosovo crisis of 1999 was one of the most
challenging events for cooperative security. Since the end of the Cold
War, the European states, the United States and Canada have made
progress in devising a new security architecture. However, the wars in
the former Yugoslavia seemed to indicate that the new international
order was not able to live up to its expectations. For the fourth time
in eight years the Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic and those
political forces he stands for tried to resolve an ethnic problem by
means of ethnic cleansing. Unlike in Bosnia-Herzegovina or in Croatia,
the Western world reacted with much more determination and resolve. The
outcome was an accord that was made in early June 1999 and which has to
be seen against the backdrop of a major international crisis. This book
critically examines the various efforts to resolve the Kosovo problem by
ways of cooperative security. It also deals with the problems that
started after the agreement of 9 June 1999. Furthermore, it tries to
shed light on the broader regional and international aspects of that
crisis.
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