Open AccessWhy Kosovo?
Author(s) -
Глен Сегелл
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
refuge
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.485
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1920-7336
pISSN - 0229-5113
DOI - 10.25071/1920-7336.22018
Subject(s) - disarmament , political science , resizing , diplomacy , position (finance) , politics , refugee , political economy , international trade , european union , law , sociology , business , finance
The quest for European Security involvesthe protracted interaction of internationaldiplomacy, war and domestic politics. This article shows how Kosovo is aninterplay of all these components.Kosovo is a case in which NATO believes that it is strengthening its position and collective security by solidifying the recent Enlargement Process to attain Collective Secuirty - diplomatically, organizationally and through the Mility of CJTF. The price is over one million displaced persons (refugees), and the risk of endangering European Security through the failure of the European Disarmamentprocess as indicated by thefailure ofthe Russian Duma even to debate STARTII/Ill.