The Bosnian War and the New World Order: Failure and Success of International Intervention. EU-ISS Occasional Paper 1, October 1997

Andreatta, Filippo (1997) The Bosnian War and the New World Order: Failure and Success of International Intervention. EU-ISS Occasional Paper 1, October 1997 .

Abstract

[Executive Summary]. The war in Bosnia has witnessed a broad swing in the moods of the "international community" and of European nations particularly. In the wake of the end of the Cold War and of the victory in the Gulf War, expectations run high at the outbreak that collective security would have been able to deal with regional disturbances. Three years later, the "international community" had accumulated many frustrations and the IFOR operation which put an end to the fighting was regarded as a highly specific one which was unlikely to be repeated in other contingencies. This paper argues that both the initial and the final attitudes toward the Bosnian War have been excessive and, somehow, related.