NATO AND THE COLLECTIVE SECURITY: CASE OF KOSOVO
Keywords:
KOSVO, NATO, Collective SecurityAbstract
Blair’s remarks evoking the image of a humanitarian crisis contrasted with the relative nonchalance with which European powers treated Kosovo in the past shows the marked shift in policy in the 1990s. This policy resulted in NATO, the victorious military alliance of the cold war world intervening in the Balkans, described as cauldron of boiling ethnicities. The intervention was made in the name of upholding human rights but led to repercussions as far as changing the very nature of NATO from a collective defence to a collective security organization. This paper seeks to complicate the assertion that NATO’s military intervention in Kosovo was justified on the grounds of collective security. The paper argues that though the concept of collective security indeed characterized the justificatory discourse surrounding the intervention, the same was highly modified by political consideration prevailing in that period. Ultimately the paper reflects on how the intervention has led to a particular understanding of collective security. in international relations
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