Het fiasco van de westerse aanwezigheid in Afghanistan doet de vraag ontstaan of humanitaire interventies nog wel zin hebben. Veel hangt af van wat er beoogd wordt. Ingrijpen in Bosnië en Kosovo heeft het concrete doel van het stoppen van een burgeroorlog en het voorkomen van genocide dichterbij …

After the Yugoslav civil war, the European Union tried to establish a period of peace and stability within the Western Balkan area. With the help of the European Union many Western Balkan countries were able to develop themselves and join the European Union. Nevertheless, Kosovo1 remained unstable and …

Secretaris-generaal van de NAVO Anders Fogh Rasmussen noemde Unified Protector één van de meest opmerkelijke operaties die de alliantie ooit heeft uitgevoerd. De operatie, en de voorloper Operation Odyssey Dawn, vormden onderdeel van een dwangstrategie met een denial-logica, waarin het de Libische leider …

The Franco-German relationship has always been very prominent in European politics and currently still is. These two states that started out as enemies in post-war Europe, gradually managed to come together and form a partnership. This dissertation seeks to examine during which main events in European …

This paper examines the complex relationship between the Western Balkan region and the EU security policy. It examines the development of the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) in the context of the violent crises, which occurred in the southeastern European countries (SEE) around the decomposition …

Macedonia wants to become a member of the European Union. However the process to become a member state requires many political changes. The Ohrid Framework Agreement was set up to improve the freedom and rights of the ethnic minorities in Macedonia. The ethnic minorities that live in Macedonia are mainly …

In 2004 verscheen in dit tijdschrift een artikel over ontmoetingen tussen de Nederlandse en Turkse krijgsmacht tijdens de vredesoperaties in Kosovo en Afghanistan. Een van de belangrijke conclusies van dat artikel was dat de Turkse respondenten zich er op lieten voorstaan dat zij zulke goede contacten …

In 1999 the Gele Rijders (Yellow Riders), the traditional name for the soldiers of 11 Battalion Horse Artillery, and with them soldiers, hussars, and gunners of numerous other units, were deployed to the municipality of Orahovac in Kosovo. In the evaluation report the Secretary of Defence sent to Parliament …

The contemporaneous viewing of Global TV (GTV) during the recent conflict in Kosovo demonstrated that the Milosevic government used 'SoftWar' tactics to attempt to counter balance US/NATO in the global mil-pol regime. The resultant effects upon the bodies politic of the NATO nations may well have helped …