Author: Mark Edmond Clark / Topic: NATO

Author:: Mark Edmond Clark
Publication Date:: 04-1999
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Columbia International Affairs Online
Abstract:: Bosnia has been an international challenge that after five years may appear intractable. However, it too has a handle. In the new Bush Administration, policymakers and analysts must recognize that Bosnia is not a Western state, and that the country's bewildering social, economic, and political structures cannot be understood by viewing them through a Western prism. Only after these are examined and delineated can the new Administration get the business of rebuilding Bosnia underway guided by a policy more suited for its society and more coherent than that of the previous Administration.
Topic:: Conflict Resolution, NATO, and Ethnic Conflict
Political Geography:: Europe and Bosnia

Author:: Sean Costigan and Mark Edmond Clark
Publication Date:: 04-1999
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Columbia International Affairs Online
Abstract:: What are the short-term effects of the bombing campaign? While I was in Belgrade and Pristina in the beginning of March, the officials of the Yugoslav and Serbian Governments, with whom I spoke, made it clear that once the bombing campaign began, they would initiate a full blown counter-terrorist campaign in Kosovo. Efforts of the Yugoslav Army and Ministry of Interior forces would be directed against the KLA and its infrastructure. The campaign would be focused on the area that was part of the KLA's "Strategic Trapezoid" in the center of Kosovo, which the KLA had declared to be their area of strongest influence. They also informed me that they would strike at KLA positions in Albania and possibly Macedonia. This is precisely what those forces have been doing.
Topic:: Conflict Resolution, NATO, and Ethnic Conflict
Political Geography:: Europe

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