by Rene Appel and Pieter Muysken
Amsterdam University Press, 2013
eISBN: 978-90-485-1967-5 | Paper: 978-90-8964-563-0
Library of Congress Classification DR1319.S93 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification 949.703

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
In the late 1990s NATO dropped bombs and supported armed insurgencies in Yugoslavia while insisting that its motives were purely humanitarian and that its only goal was peace. However, George Szamuely argues that NATO interventions actually prolonged conflicts, heightened enmity, increased casualties, and fueled demands for more interventions.

Eschewing the one-sided approach adopted by previous works on the Yugoslavian crisis, Szamuely offers a broad overview of the conflict, its role in the rise of NATO’s authority, and its influence on Western policy on the Balkans. His timely, judicious, and accessible study sheds new light on the roots of the contemporary doctrine of humanitarian intervention.