Triumph of the Lack of Will: International Diplomacy and the Yugoslav War / Edition 1

by James Gow

Overview

This book examines how and why the United States, Britain, France, and Germany failed to cope with the collapse of Yugoslavia and its descent into a savage civil war. This failure also shattered long-cherished notions about how the UN, NATO, and the European Community would deal with such a crisis and prompted a drastic reassessment of their roles. Gow demonstrates that the lack of timing, bad judgment, poor cohesion, and absence of political will over the use of force were the fundamental reasons for this failure.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231109161
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	05/07/1997
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	250
Product dimensions:	5.64(w) x 8.70(h) x 0.92(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Editorial Reviews

The best treatment yet of the interplay between the international players and the events on the ground. The book would be useful in any classes dealing with Bosnia, Yugoslavia in general, the UN and peacekeeping, ethnic conflict, and the foreign policy of the EU and its members.

Warren Zimmerman

Gow has written about the Yugoslavian crisis before, and here evaluates the range of international attempts to find a workable peace. He credits their failure to bad timing, bad judgement, poor cohesion, and the absence of political will. He accuses the governments comprising the Contact Group of subverting each other's strategic and diplomatic goals in order to pursue their own interests, behavior unbecoming leaders of the New World Order. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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