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State Building and Development: Two sides of the same coin? Exploring the case of Kosovo
Diplomica Verlag 2010; US$ 46.93This dissertation's hypothesis argues that state-building and development are processes that, to function successfully, must be positioned in a complementary interrelationship. This argument has arisen in response to contemporary approaches to state-building and development that are too narrow, so that state-building strategies are often reduced to... more...
War Over Kosovo
Columbia University Press 2005; US$ 33.99While many analysts view the war for Kosovo as a one-sided affair of passing importance, this volume insists otherwise. To a greater extent than any other episode since the end of the Cold War, the war in Kosovo revealed the distinctive attributes of a new American "way of war." In so doing, the conflict also brought into sharp focus the dilemmas... more...
Kosovo and International Society
Palgrave Macmillan 2002; US$ 145.00This book explains the international engagement with the Kosovo conflict from the dissolution of Yugoslavia to Operation Allied Force. It shows how Kosovo was deliberately excluded from the search for peace in Yugoslavia before going on to demonstrate how a shaky international consensus was forged to support air strikes in 1999. In doing so, it exposes... more...
Understanding the War in Kosovo
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 53.95The war in Kosovo has been a defining moment in post-Cold War Europe. Kosovo has great importance beyond the Balkans as the most ambitious attempt of the international community to prevent internal conflicts and rebuild a society destroyed by war and ethnic cleansing. As the danger of ethnic conflict prevails in the region and elsewhere around the... more...
Historical Dictionary of Kosovo
Scarecrow Press 2010; US$ 89.99This second edition of the Historical Dictionary of Kosovo relates the history of Kosovo through a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, places, and events; institutions and organizations; and political, economic, social, cultural, and religious facets.... more...
Kosovo, Intervention and Statebuilding
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 138.00This book examines international engagement with Kosovo since NATO?s intervention in 1999, and looks at the three distinct phases of Kosovo?s development; intervention, statebuilding and independence. Kosovo remains a case study of central importance in international relations, illustrative of key political trends in the post-Cold War era. During... more...
Violence Taking Place
Stanford University Press 2010; US$ 22.95The first history ever of violence against architecture as political violence, this book examines the case of the former Yugoslavia and the ways in which architecture is a site where power, agency, and ethnicity are constituted. more...
Collision Course
ABC-CLIO 2005; US$ 73.00If Europe, Russia, and international bodies such as the U.N. and NATO end up playing a more prominent role in Iraq's immediate future, all parties, including the United States, would do well to revisit the lessons learned during the U.S.-led war in Kosovo in 1999. As a confrontation over Kosovo's final push for independence looms, this book... more...
Der Kosovokonflikt unter Berücksichtigung der deutschen Rolle
Diplomica Verlag 2008; US$ 36.02Die Auflösung des Warschauer Paktes und die sich daraus ergebende Destabilisierung Südost-Europas führte zu einer der größten Herausforderungen seit der Gründung der Bundesrepublik. Während für die NATO-Verbündeten Deutschlands Konfliktmanagement unter dem Einsatz von Streitkräften längst gängige Praxis bedeutete, war dies für Deutschland etwas gänzlich... more...
The Kosovo Crisis
Manchester University Press 2003; US$ 95.00This book looks at the legacy of the 1998-99 Kosovo crisis for European security affairs. It examines the debates about the nature and justification of intervention in the affairs of sovereign states. It also considers the impact of the crisis on NATO and more...









