Word: nato
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...NATO dismissed the Serb offer as a nonstarter and kept on bombing. But the alliance also reiterated its own terms for a settlement: An end to the Serb offensive in Kosovo A withdrawal of Serb military, paramilitary and police units from the region The safe return of the refugees The presence of an international protection force to guarantee their security Autonomy for Kosovo within Serbia, along the lines envisaged at Rambouillet...
...even NATO's rejection of the Serb offer contained a concession -- the idea that the army protecting returning refugees would be an "international" rather than a NATO force. This allowed for Russian involvement, and opened up the issue of the composition of the Kosovo peacekeeping force -- which was not on the table at Rambouillet -- for negotiation...
...think we can really talk about the situation intelligently right now," he says. "The news is largely full of NATO-screened information and speculation on the part of journalists. Very little of what is out there is unaltered fact. When we criticize ...the decisions of military commanders when we don't have all the facts, we are shooting from...
...fundamental issues of world politics: moral responsibility beyond the nation state; the tactics and politics of military intervention, particularly with air power; the credibility of national policy; the role of nationalism in motivating state behavior; the effectiveness of sanctions; alliance coherence; great power politics in the security council and NATO, and so on," he says...
...says Wendy E. Franz, head teaching fellow for Historical Studies A-12, courses that touch on themes relating to the NATO bombing must take care to keep newspaper headlines from taking over...