Coercive Diplomacy before the War in Kosovo: America’s Approach in 1998
written by Micah Zenko, fl. 2001, in Institute for the Study of Diplomacy Case Study Program, Case 279 (District of Columbia: Georgetown University. School of Foreign Service. Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, 2001), 10 page(s)
Details
- Abstract / Summary
- After several years of simmering ethnic tensions, Kosovo exploded in 1998. Serbian military forces began a series of offensive campaigns against the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), and its suspected bases of support. As a result, by early fall 300,000 Kosovar Albanians had been forced from their homes to face a brutal winter without shelter. This case study examines the Clinton administration’s September 1998 decision to use coercive diplomacy to halt Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic’s brutal assault on Kosovar-Albanians. The case tools can help students understand the complexities of crisis decision-making, the intricacies of intervention, and the frustrations of multilateral action. The case also addresses intervention in ethnic crises, the role of signaling in international diplomacy, and the limits of coercive diplomacy. An exercise is included in which students create a position representing their department, and press for its acceptance at a National Security Council meeting.
- Field of Interest
- Global Issues
- Author
- Micah Zenko, fl. 2001
- Publisher
- The Institute for the Study of Diplomacy
- Copyright Message
- Copyright © 2001 The Institute for the Study of Diplomacy
- Content Type
- Case study
- Warning: Contains explicit content
- No
- Format
- Text
- Page Count
- 10
- Publication Year
- 2001
- Publisher
- Georgetown University. School of Foreign Service. Institute for the Study of Diplomacy
- Place Published / Released
- District of Columbia
- Series Number
- Case 279
- Subject
- Global Issues, Social Sciences, Territorial Disputes, Individual and Groups Rights, Kosovo War (1998-1999), Kosovo War, 1998-1999, Diplomacy, Politics & Policy, Las Disputas Territoriales, Disputas Territoriais, Direitos Individuais e de Grupo, Derechos del Individuo y de Grupos, United States of America, USA, US of A, America, Estados Unidos, Kosovo Liberation Army, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, United States. Department of State, Slobodan Milošević, 1941-2006, William Jefferson Clinton, 1946-, United States, Kosovo, Albanians, Serbians, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
- Series / Program
- Institute for the Study of Diplomacy Case Study Program
- Keywords and Translated Subjects
- Las Disputas Territoriales, Disputas Territoriais, Direitos Individuais e de Grupo, Derechos del Individuo y de Grupos, United States of America, USA, US of A, America, Estados Unidos
