Kosovo War

Intro The 1990s conflict in Kosovo is one that has been identified as a result of a long running and intractable dispute. The dispute identified is one between Kosovo’s Albanians or Kosovar, and the Serbians. The reasons for the dispute stem from several issues, each can be attributed to increasing the intractability of the conflict. The issues that have been identified stem from ethnic issues, or political. In the Kosovo region the ethnic issues stem from the vast differences between the Albanians

Yugoslavia and its consequences on its people and society. After the Second World War, the great nation of Yugoslavia was formed by countries considered similar but extremely diverse in contexts of religion, culture and ideals. The break up of this nation resulted from the weaknesses in government after the death of their leader and national tensions which had been present for centuries. From this, the Yugoslav war had been triggered impacting the peace amongst the nations which once resided together

Milosevic in an interview for the Time magazine, 1995). In the 1990s Yugoslavia was the battlefield of Europe’s bloodiest war since 1945. This notorious culmination was a product of an interconnected chain of events which began in the mid-1980s with the deepening of the conflict and the extremely strained relations between the two major ethnic groups in Kosovo: Albanians and Serbs. Kosovo was the most problematic region in the whole federation due to the large number of Albanian population in the province

Kosovo is located in southern Serbia. There, due to the immigration of many Albanians into Serbia, many conflicts have risen. Serbia reclaimed the territory of what they call modern day Kosovo, however, hatred still remains. The Albanians believe Kosovo has been their land, yet, Serbians have proclaimed they have been there for 500 years. In response, the Albanians revolt and are using terrorist-like attacks on the Serbians; such as houses being destroyed, mass killings, poisoning of the livestock

Serbian mobilization of Kosovo Albanians: 1) Ordinary people adopted the ideals of the elites and 2) open opportunity during the fall of communism. Although these main reasons may overlap each other, they both are definitive in the emergence of a new leader. As revolutions prove to break ground when opportunities arise, Milosevic seized his chance at power. Nationalistic mobilization would monopolize within the Serbian community and reawaken historic ties with the Kosovo Albanians. The anti bureaucratic

Herzegovina was illegally proclaimed as an independent state and recognized. Nationalism had been voiced many time’s by Milosevic which he uses to voice out against the Bosnian state. With the help from Karadzic another person who was indicted for war crimes, Milosevic was able to gain a stronger foothold in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Rape camps were used and created to eliminate the Bosniak bloodline. “Thousands of Muslim and Croatian girls and women were raped and made forcibly pregnant in settings including

Norway Image Morgan Schadel 2/24/2015 Page Break Introduction Norway is located in Northernmost part of Europe. Norway borders the North Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean and is west of Sweden. The coordinates that Norway lie on is 62 00N, 10 00E. The total area of Norway is 323, 802 square kilometers. In comparison to the world, Norway is ranked 68. Norway has a population of 5,147,972 people. The per capita GDP is $65,515. In comparison to the world, Norway

member state was attacked, the rest would come to her aid under article 5. Since the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, however, the role of NATO has become a great deal less clearly defined, since its members no longer really have any need for a defensive alliance. Indeed, operations such as those in Bosnia and Kosovo have suggested that for from being a defensive alliance, NATO may have some kind of future as an offensive alliance. There are also now

protect its citizens, and if this is ignored, the international community has rights to step in. Despite the fact that, in theory, this intervention doctrine has many flaws starting with the failures seen in crisis areas such as Somalia, Bosnia and Kosovo and the debate on whether it compromises a state’s sovereignty. These faults led to the creation of the newer Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine, which, in its own capacity, has many faults and failures, but has seen some small victories in

Introduction From the establishment of China’s tenure on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in 1971, Beijing was notorious for taking a hard line against peacekeeping operations . Between 1971 and 1980, China condemned nearly all UN Peacekeeping Operations (UNPKO) and refused to contribute personnel or financial support. Largely this was due to a firm stance on respect for state sovereignty, an issue that was crucial to the survival of the PRC. Ideological differences between the United