Alliance Politics, Kosovo and NATO's War: Allied Force or Forced Allies?

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"..a very good contribution to our understanding of the issues."--International Affairs
“Alliance Politics, Kosovo, and NATO’s War: Allied Force or Forced Allies? is a balanced and serious investigation of the circumstances leading up to NATO’s involvement in Kosovo in 1999. It is good at explaining the many complex factors driving policy in NATO’s 19 capitals, both in the run-up to the initiation of hostilities and then throughout the 78 hectic and very much unscripted days of Operation Allied Force. Many books have been written on NATO’s Kosovo operation. This is one of the most comprehensive.” --Jamie Shea, Director of Information and Press, NATO
“Martin and Brawley make Operation Allied Force, NATO’s 1999 air war against Serbia over Kosovo, the lens through which they refract a set of pluralist images of the Alliance. Balanced essays treat nearly every aspect of the relationship between NATO and its member states, and between NATO and other international institutions such as the United Nations or the European Union. Easily the best book thus far on the ‘new NATO.’” --Richard H. Ullman, David K. E. Bruce Professor of International Affairs, Princeton University
“This book offers a very reflective survey of the theoretical and practical issues facing the future of NATO, and indeed the future of military alliances in general. The authors bring to bear the uncertainties of international relations theory in the post–Cold War world, and an expertise on the specific national perspectives of the NATO members, large and small, as illustrated in the war over Kosovo. This is a very timely collection, likely to have a long shelf-life.” --George Quester, Professor of Government and Politics, University of Maryland, College Park



Book Description
As NATO’s first hostile offensive military action, Operation Allied Force placed new demands and pressures on the Alliance. Those pressures and demands offer an opportunity to answer critical questions regarding Alliance politics: How much autonomy do the Alliance members have? Does the U.S. dictate Alliance policy? Can the Alliance function politically while engaged in combat? Contributors explore the experience of NATO’s members individually as well as in terms of implications for theories of alliances. More fundamentally, the contributors to this volume ask whether Operation Allied Force reflected a consensus among NATO’s members, or whether some members were “Forced Allies.”



About the Author
Pierre Martin is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Université de Montréal.

Mark R. Brawley is Professor in the Department of Political Science at McGill University, where he is a member of the Université de Montréal/McGill University Research Group in International Security.



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This volume looks at the role of NATO, its decision-making processes, and its future. More specifically, the 12 contributions from international scholars examine the experiences of the individual members of NATO during the Alliance's joint military operation in Kosovo. Topics include, for example, Kosovo and the future of US engagement in Europe, Italy and the management of international crises, and the legal and institutional framework of Euro-Atlantic security. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)


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