• Misha Glenny, The Balkans 1804-1999: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers, (London: Granta Publications 1999).…
Essentially, neorealism affirms that wars and conflicts are unavoidable due to an anarchical international system where there is an absence of a central, global authority to restrain all politicians’ war mongering tendencies, resulting in states having the need to fend for themselves to ensure their survival . Therefore, states needs to build up military strength through conscription to safeguard its survival if war is ever to break out. Henceforth, amassing enough military proficiency will increase the disbursement of aggressions & make any abeyant adversaries hesitate before attacking. Apply neorealism to the Singapore context; geopolitically, Singapore is an infinitesimal “Chinese state in a Malay sea” which it views as a conceivable ideological threat. Since 1971, Singapore has practised the “poison shrimp” doctrine extracted from Israel’s doctrine of…
This story is being repeated in the Balkans for the umpteenth time. Almost a month after the most powerful military grouping in history launched air attacks on rump Yugoslavia to compel adherence to a peace accord, a human tragedy of grotesque proportions continues to unfold in Kosovo. Nearly 50 per cent of its Albanian population has been forced to flee the country under the relentless assault of the Yugoslav army and police, amid unbelievably cruel carnage of human lives and burning of villages and towns.…
Edward P. Joseph (2005, January 01). Back to the Balkans. Foreign Affairs, 111, Retrieved from http://elibrary.bigchalk.com…
3. Include at least two (2) peer-reviewed references (no more than five [5] years old) from material outside the textbook to support your views regarding the proposed U.S. response to the conflict in Bosnia. Note: Appropriate peer-reviewed references include scholarly articles and governmental Websites. Do not use open source…
A key tenet of realist thinking is the concept of power, or more specifically, ‘hard power’ and its uses within the realm of international relations. It is the ability to make other actors comply with a state’s will through the use of force and threat (Copeland 2010). With this key tenet, comes the realist notion of an ongoing balancing of power between states. Some have gone so far as to call it “the central theoretical concept of international relations” (Snyder 1984). This realist sentiment can easily…
Mertus, Julie. Kosovo: How Myths and Truths Started a War. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. p.7…
The article discusses that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) peace enforcement mission and the United Nations (UN) protectorate failed to credibly establish their authority. Also, a loosely veiled incarnation of the Kosovo Liberation Army. And is described as implementing a policy of systematic revenge killings.…
War in the Balkans broke out in the early 1990’s, after the Serb president Milosevic began his campaign of Serb national dominance. Prior to Milosevic’s secession of…
Neorealism was created in a society torn apart by war and a fascist regime.Its focus is on poverty, war, and occasionally hope. It is a tool used to allow the outside world experience the truth and realism the citizens of italy had experience. Neorealism films were shot on location, with non-professional actors, using various filmmaking techniques like the long take.…
The Balkans, a region between the Mediterranean and Black sea was and is inhabited by many nations with various religions. This fact resulted often in unrests. To make peace in this area, it was necessary to unite the nations and to place a strong personality on the head. The Second World War helped by a considerable measure to the choice of such a personality.…
The Yugoslavian Conflict Yugoslavia is a country burdened by feuding sides in a war that cannot soon be resolved. The United Nations are attempting to help the situation, but until the people of Yugoslavia can come to an agreement continued warfare and heartache is inevitable. The problems in Yugoslavia began because the country is separated into two distinct parts.…
Donnelly, Jack, Realism and International Relations, (2004), The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press , pp. 6-43…
The conflict in Kosovo has an ethnic nature but can be seen both from the instrumental and symbolic points of view. From a symbolic point of view, the root of the conflict is that Serb nationalists believe that Kosovo is the cradle of the Serbian nation. The Serbian medieval state was located in the Kosovo region and its surroundings. The most important date on the Serb national calendar is the 15th of June (1389) when battle of Kosovo Polje took place. The Serbs were defeated by the Ottoman Empire. During the 500 year reign of the Ottoman Empire over the area Christian Serbs left the region, making Muslims and Albanians the most favored. After the first Balkan wars, Serbia regained control of the Kosovo are from the Turks. Serbs feel that Kosovo is Serb by right and history and so they shall control it even though they are a minority in the region. Ethnic Albanese feel discriminated by this Serbian minority, for over 500 years Kosovo, though under the Turkish empire, was controlled and administered by Albanians. They believe Serbs lost the right to control the territory when they were defeated by the Ottoman Empire and thus have no right to control and discriminate them.…
Assess the reasons for British concerns in the Balkans and the Mediterranean in the period 1856-1902…