NATO's Balkan Interventions

Dana H. Allin is editor of Survival, and Senior Fellow for Transatlantic Affairs at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). A graduate of Yale University, he worked as a Europe-based financial journalist before earning an M.A. and Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University, Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He was visiting assistant professor in European Studies and American Foreign Policy at the SAIS centers in Bologna, Italy and Washington, D.C., a Robert Bosch Foundation Fellow, and Deputy Director of both the Aspen Institute Berlin and the International Commission on the Balkans (a joint project of Aspen Berlin and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace).

INTRODUCTION; 1. Bosnia and the Transatlantic Problem; The consequences of disunity; A common confusion; America's case against Europe; Europe's case against America; Lessons learned?; 2. Dayton and the American Problem; Uncertainties of US engagement; Peace enforcement, 1995-2001; 3. Kosovo and the Struggle for Unity; Taking sides; Force and diplomacy; The problem of legitimacy; War by committee; NATO transformed; 4. The Western Alliance and its Balkan Protectorates; Continuing conflicts; Post-war administrations; Long-term strategies; CONCLUSION; Hard choices: Macedonia, Kosovo and Bosnia; Interpreting NATO's Balkan interventions; NOTES