Balkan Odyssey - David Owen
KORTE INHOUD
An invaluable first-hand account of diplomatic efforts to halt ethnic cleansing and civil war in the former Yugoslavia-by the former British Member of Parliament who headed the international mediation effort from 1992 to 1995.
"In this richly detailed memoir, Lord Owen who led European mediation efforts in the former Yugoslavia's bloody civil war, shares "a great many revelations drawn from secret memoranda and confidential reports that detail every twist and turn"(New York Review of Books): He tells of the bad faith of warring leaders who believed they had more to gain through war than peace; the consequences of the Clinton Administration's opposition to the Vande-Owen peace plan; and how other peace sttlements were hindered by divisions between the United States, Europe, and Russia, as well as the United Nations and NATO.
"Balkan Oddyssey is a portrait of a new world that is anything bur brave."(New Republic)
"Nobody can talk authoritatively about the course of this war without engaging this text in detail."
(N...
"In this richly detailed memoir, Lord Owen who led European mediation efforts in the former Yugoslavia's bloody civil war, shares "a great many revelations drawn from secret memoranda and confidential reports that detail every twist and turn"(New York Review of Books): He tells of the bad faith of warring leaders who believed they had more to gain through war than peace; the consequences of the Clinton Administration's opposition to the Vande-Owen peace plan; and how other peace sttlements were hindered by divisions between the United States, Europe, and Russia, as well as the United Nations and NATO.
"Balkan Oddyssey is a portrait of a new world that is anything bur brave."(New Republic)
"Nobody can talk authoritatively about the course of this war without engaging this text in detail."
(N...
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