By Diana Mavunduse and Simon Oxley
ISBN-10: 2825413712
ISBN-13: 9782825413715
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Youngs 2001b, p. 2. htm, accessed in May 2003. 55 Kopstein and Reilly 2000. 56 European Union 2001. Ibid. European Union 2000a. European Union 2000b. For more on the division of institutional responsibilities in the Kosovo operation, see Chapter 10. Since 1999, the EU’s activities in the Balkans have been guided in part by the provisions of the Stability Pact for South East Europe, which include the goals of democratization and marketization in Bosnia and Kosovo (see Bartlett and Samardˇzija 2000).
Meanwhile, dormant ethnic tensions reasserted themselves and sparked internecine violence across a band of formerly communist states stretching from Yugoslavia through the Caucasus to Central Asia. With Russia and the United States no longer willing to devote the resources and energy that would be needed to rehabilitate these “failed states,” such international organizations as the United Nations were increasingly called upon to take action, particularly when 7 Quoted in Urquhart 1972, pp. 458–459.
112 Writing in 1995, for example, Stanford University’s Larry Diamond, coeditor of the Journal of Democracy, offered this paean to liberal democracy as a panacea for so many of the world’s problems: The experience of this century offers important lessons. Countries that govern themselves in a truly democratic fashion do not go to war with one another. They do not aggress against their neighbors to aggrandize themselves or glorify their leaders. Democratic governments do not ethnically “cleanse” their own populations, and they are much less likely to face ethnic insurgency.