Bertrand de Rossanet is the pen name of a senior international civil servant who has been involved in negotiations and other activities carried out by the International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia from its earliest days. In this fascinating short book, which fits well into the Nijhoff Law Specials series, he describes and analyses the events which have taken place since 1992 with great skill, and with an understanding shared by few. Bertrand de Rossanet's long experience, together with his inside knowledge, provides a vantage point from which unique observations can be made. Nobody...
Bertrand de Rossanet is the pen name of a senior international civil servant who has been involved in negotiations and other activities carried out by...
This book argues that the efforts of international mediators to stop the war in Bosnia were deliberately thwarted by the factions, who chose war over peace. Major powers backed clients among the warring parties, and prolonged the war, instead of helping to bring it to an end. NATO sat on the fence when it could have helped bring peace, leading to two more years of war. When the USA finally engaged in the search for peace it did so for domestic political reasons, trampled on the very moral precepts it had used to kill off earlier peace plans, used the building-blocks of the International...
This book argues that the efforts of international mediators to stop the war in Bosnia were deliberately thwarted by the factions, who chose war over ...
