Of Dark Sides and Twilight Zones: Enlarging to the Balkans
Of Dark Sides and Twilight Zones: Enlarging to the Balkans
Author(s): Alina Mungiu-PippidiSubject(s): Governance, Political history, International relations/trade, Security and defense, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment, Wars in Jugoslavia
Published by: SAGE Publications Ltd
Keywords: Balkans; Srebrenica genocide; 1995; Dutch peace forces; failure to prevent slaughter in Srebrenica; international community; security; EU enlargement; EU accession of Balkan states;
Summary/Abstract: In April 2002, the Dutch government of Wim Kok, driven by a virtuous environment minister, resigned over the 1995 failure of Dutch troops to prevent the slaughter of more than seven thousand Muslims in the small Balkan town of Srebrenica. The distance in space and time from the initial event that triggered this development to the final outcome is considerable. So is the novelty. Governments have resigned over failures in foreign policy before but never over one with no direct impact to their own security. [...]
Journal: East European Politics and Societies
- Issue Year: 17/2003
- Issue No: 01
- Page Range: 83-90
- Page Count: 8
- Language: English
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