"Since the end of the Cold War, crises from the Balkans to Central Asia and Africa have forced international organizations to adapt, expand, and cooperate to end civil wars, manage humanitarian challenges, and contain terrorist threats. The 'Power of Dependence' explores the complex relationship between two of these organizations: NATO and the United Nations"--Jacket.
Explores the foundations of conflict in Kosovo, charging that the international community's failure to support the Albanians in their initial passive resistance to Serbian repression led to violence.
Examines what the author calls virtual war--battles waged by powerful nations using modern technology and having no expectation of human casualties; and looks at how this type of war was pursued by the U.S. and NATO in Kosovo.
Chronicles the war in Kosovo, discussing the background of Serb-Albanian conflict, Slobodan Milosevic's career and his use of Kosovo, NATO's involvement, civil atrocities, the February 1999 Rambouillet peace conference, and other aspects of the war.
Former MI5 officer Harry Tate is charged with finding the truth about a war atrocity that allegedly took place under his watch in Kosovo in 1999, but a skillful assassin is taking out potential witnesses before Harry can discover the facts.
Tells the story of Edi Fejzullahu and his family, Albanians who fled their home in Kosovo to live in a Macedonian refugee camp when the Serbs adopted a policy of ethnic cleansing against Albanians.
In 1998 when the Kosovo hostilities escalate, thirteen-year-old Meli's life as an ethnic Albanian, changes forever after her brother escapes his Serbian captors and the entire family flees from one refugee camp to another until they are able to immigrate to America.
