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Yet Kissinger is far too sophisticated to attempt to recreate a world that is lost. "Today," he writes, "the Westphalian order is in systematic crisis." In particular, nation-states are no longer the sole drivers of the international system. In some cases, groups of states - like the European Union or...
In the end, Western money sealed Slobodan Milosevic's fate. In limbo between a Yugoslav Federal government leery of handing its former president over to a war crimes tribunal and a Serb national government wanting to receive aid contingent on a handover, the Serbs short-circuited the federal government's...
Milosevic's trial, for war crimes in Kosovo and also in Bosnia and Croatia, will be hailed as an epic victory by advocates of an international system of justice to deal with war criminals. The power of economic sanctions was underlined by the fact that the Milosevic was first arrested...
Yes, Kostunica's views on this issue have evolved since his election. During his election campaign last year and immediately afterwards, his line was that cooperation with the Hague Tribunal was very low on his priority list, and also that in principle he was against turning anybody over for trial...
But it's also important to remember that Kostunica was under pressure from most of the members of his own ruling coalition, who favored cooperation with the Tribunal. In opposing it, Kostunica was in the minority even within his own government. So now that the first step has been taken...