Britain, NATO and the Lessons of the Balkan Conflicts, 1991 -1999

Dr Stephen Badsey is a Senior Lecturer at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst and editor of The Media and International Security in the Sandhurst Conference series.Dr Paul Latowski is also a Senior Lecturer at Sandhurst and has edited a number of books including Contemporary Nationalism in East Central Europe.

'This book is a broad discussion of how future military action, peacekeeping and civil-military relations should be handled. James Gow stresses for instance, that a time frame for the 'Wests' involvement be 'as long as it takes.' - Peace Research

• Part 1: The Image of the Past 1. Yugoslav Quagmires: The image of the past and fear of intervention 2. The Wehrmacht's Yugoslav Quagmire: Myth or reality Part 2: The Military Legacy of the Balkans 3. Doctrinal Change: The experience of Bosnia and Kosovo 4. The Air Campaign Part 3: The Media and the Kosovo Conflict 5. Media Operations: Lessons from Kosovo 6. Media Interaction in the Kosovo Conflict 7. Modern Conflicts, the Media and Public Opinion: The Kosovo example Part 4: Contested International Responses 8. NATO's Military Action Over Kosovo: The conceptual landscape after the battle 9. Russian Policy during the Kosovo Conflict 10. Kosovo, NATO and the United Nations Part 5: Conflict Termination and Peace-building 11. From Antipathy to Hegemony: The impact on civil-military cooperation 12. The Role of Humanitarian Aid in Conflict Management Part 6: Balkan Futures 13. Some Reverberations from the Kosovo Conflict 14. Managing and Removing the Conditions for Armed Conflict