Review: Cold War Inheritances: Triumph of the Lack of Will
| Author | John M. Fraser |
| Date | 01 March 1998 |
| Published date | 01 March 1998 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070209805300115 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
Reviews
the
relevance
for
Canada
hardly
about
the
outsiders,
the
Yugoslav
needs
to
be
underlined,
actors
appear
only
at
the
margin
of
the
analysis.
The
authors
focus
their
THE
WORLD
AND
attention
on
why
the
major coun-
YUGOSLAVIA'S
WARS
tries
and
international organizations
Edited
by
Richard
H.
Ullman
failed
to
intervene soon
enough
or
New
York:
Council on
Foreign
Rela-
effectively
enough
to forestall
tions,
1996,
2 2
0pp, US$18.95
paper
tragedy.
They
obviously
believe
the
international
community
could
Nine
distinguished United
States
have
done
much
better,
although
scholars,
under
the editorial
leader- evidently
not
to
the
point
of
pre-
ship
of
Richard
Ullman
of
Prince-
serving
a
country
so
many
of
its
ton,
examine
the
part
played
by
the
own people seemed
bent
on
principal outside
actors
in
the
destroying.
An
intriguing
analysis
of
drama
of
the former
Yugoslavia.
United
States
and
European
public
Few
emerge
with
credit.
Neither
the opinion
by
Richard
Sobel
suggests
major
countries
involved
nor
the
the
West's
real
failure
was
of
politi-
United
Nations
and
its
agencies,
the
cal
leadership
rather
than
popular
North
Atlantic
Treaty
Organization
will.
A review
of
the
daunting
prob-
(NATO),
and
the
European
regional
lems
of
peacemaking
and
recon-
organizations
escape
rough
han-
struction
by
Abram Chayes and
dling
by
the
various
authors.
Here
Antonia
Handler
Chayes
foresees
and
there, modest
consolation
prospects
only
slightly
less
discour-
emerges.
The
cautious
realism
of
aging
than
the
pursuit
of
continued
the administration
of
President
war
and
destruction would
have
George
Bush
receives
some
recogni-
presented.
tion.
The
authors
also
recognize
that
humanitarian
efforts,
however
TRIUMPH OF
THE
LACK
OF WILL
bungled,
did
save
lives
and
limit International
diplomacy
and
the
destruction.
But
in general,
the
Yugoslav
war
authors
confirm
the now-familiar
James
Gow
picture: the
descent
of
a
country
New
York:
Columbia
University
Press,
which,
for
all
its
flaws,
was
reason-
1997,
xii,
34
1pp,
US$29.50
ably
united,
prosperous,
and
civi-
lized
into
a
chaos
of
destruction
and
Under
the Congress
of
Berlin
in
barbarity
-
a
chaos
created
by
insid-
1878,
when
Austria
Hungary
took
ers
but
which
outsiders
were
power-
over
the
administration
of
Bosnia-
less
to
prevent
and
seemed
at
times Herzegovina
from
the
Ottoman
to
make
worse.
Since
this
is
a
book
empire,
they
moved
in
an
army
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JOURNAL
Winter
1997-8
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