Titlebook: NATO and the Western Balkans; From Neutral Spectat Niall Mulchinock Book 2017 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 NATO.Bal

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,Kosovo – NATO’s War (1998–99),t role in the initial phases of the Kosovo crisis in 1998. What factors encouraged an earlier military response in March 1999? Why did this particular military operation prove to be so testing for the alliance? This is considered from the perspective of member state positions during the bombing campaign.

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Introduction,f NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) in the Western Balkans. NATO’s roles in both the conflict and post-conflict phases are addressed critically by means of an additional framework analysis shortly to be explained (see pp.00–00). This framework involves the incorporation of three distinct ‘le

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,Bosnia: Phase 2 and a More Pro-active Stance by the Alliance (1994–95),r) in 1994 when NATO and the international community fail to halt the aggressive behaviour of the Bosnian Serbs. This is explored from a number of different perspectives. While member state roles are again highlighted, the related mounting tensions between the UN and NATO’s political and military st

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,Kosovo – NATO’s War (1998–99), this contested province at the end of the 1990s. In the opening section of the chapter, he looks at Kosovo’s volatile history and how these historical grievances were utilised by Milosevic in his rise to power at the end of the 1980s. Moving a decade forward, he shows how NATO played a more dominan

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,NATO’s Peace Support Interventions in the Balkans Since 1995 (Phase 1 Bosnia),se hypothetical peace support operations outside of the treaty area in the years after 1989. He then shows how this was finally realised with the deployment of the IFOR operation to post-conflict Bosnia in 1995. The major duties that are taken on by the IFOR and SFOR peace enforcement missions betwe

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,NATO’s Peace Support Interventions in the Balkans Since 1995 (Phase 2 Kosovo),conflict political situation in Kosovo in 1999 was intrinsically different to Bosnia in 1995. Did KFOR respond adequately to acts of violence committed against minority populations? Within this area, he investigates the reaction of KFOR to episodes of ethnic strife in the tense town of Mitrovica in