Focusing on NATO's continued crisis of identity, this text argues that the conflicts in Croatia, Bosnia-Hercegovina and Kosovo have proven to be critical to an alliance that has not been able to define its roles and missions in the post-Cold War world. While, on the one hand, NATO was enlarging by inviting former adversaries in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union to join, on the hand it has been woefully unprepared to deal with the ethnic conflicts that erupted on its borders and that potentially threaten the peace and stability of Europe. Joyce P. Kaufman contends that the...
Focusing on NATO's continued crisis of identity, this text argues that the conflicts in Croatia, Bosnia-Hercegovina and Kosovo have proven to be criti...