Internet Research Materials

• Kosovo and the Challenge of Humanitarian Intervention
• Highly Suspect Pretext for War
• Did NATO Act out of Humanitarian Concerns

Questions for Discussion

• In your opinion, was the NATO intervention in Kosovo a provoking or abating factor in the ethnic cleansing undertaken by the Serbs? * Was there more room for negotiations prior to the military intervention? * In what way could the interaction between the NATO command in Europe , the Pentagon, the UN and the Russian military have been improved? Would that be feasible? * Assuming that the international community could indeed put a limitation on prioritizing interventions along strategic interests of great powers, i.e. on more recent or less severe humanitarian crises “jumping the queue”, should it do so? What if great powers, which are the most significant sources of aid and military force, still would not pay attention to less strategically important to them cases?

Key Terms

Military humanitarianism

Spillover effects

Operation Horseshoe

Permanent Five of the Security Council

Independent International Commission on Kosovo

Universal system of norms

Evans Commission