Europe's Nightmare - by Miron Rezun Hardcover

About the Book

Recent bombing campaigns and peacekeeping efforts have achieved a fragile and uncertain peace in Kosovo. However, NATO will need help from both the European Union and the United Nations to create and maintain a lasting peace in the region. An expert in the affairs of the troubled region, Rezun traveled to the crisis zone to interview Kosovar refugees and foreign statesmen. He offers a sharp critique of the conflict, taking NATO and the entire Western Alliance to task and emphasizing the villainous behavior of the Milosevic regime. One cannot consider what happened in Kosovo to be an isolated affair, Rezun contends.

Based on the widest possible range of sources, including documentation in nearly every European language, this study will appeal to experts and laymen alike. Rezun refuses to take sides. In addition to his criticisms of foreign intervention, exaggerated statistics, and reverse ethnic cleansing, he is merciless in his condemnation of the Serbs, in particular the corrupt influence of Milosevic and the late Arkan. In writing laced with irony, wit, and satire, he reveals the foibles of limited war and the errors committed by all parties. Yet his primary focus remains on the sufferings of the men, women, and children who filled the refugee camps and the devastated villages to which they have returned.

Book Synopsis

Recent bombing campaigns and peacekeeping efforts have achieved a fragile and uncertain peace in Kosovo. However, NATO will need help from both the European Union and the United Nations to create and maintain a lasting peace in the region. An expert in the affairs of the troubled region, Rezun traveled to the crisis zone to interview Kosovar refugees and foreign statesmen. He offers a sharp critique of the conflict, taking NATO and the entire Western Alliance to task and emphasizing the villainous behavior of the Milosevic regime. One cannot consider what happened in Kosovo to be an isolated affair, Rezun contends.

Based on the widest possible range of sources, including documentation in nearly every European language, this study will appeal to experts and laymen alike. Rezun refuses to take sides. In addition to his criticisms of foreign intervention, exaggerated statistics, and reverse ethnic cleansing, he is merciless in his condemnation of the Serbs, in particular the corrupt influence of Milosevic and the late Arkan. In writing laced with irony, wit, and satire, he reveals the foibles of limited war and the errors committed by all parties. Yet his primary focus remains on the sufferings of the men, women, and children who filled the refugee camps and the devastated villages to which they have returned.

Review Quotes

"Europe's Nightmare is a very useful study of recent developments in Kosovo, prepared by a most careful and judicious observer of Balkan affairs. It will be of use in both policy circles and classrooms."-Sabrina P. Ramet Professor of International Studies University of Washington

"Miron Rezun...brings important research, sophisticated analysis and balance in this book not only to the local issues but also to the larger international ramifications. His insights should be of interest not only to regional specialists and policy makers but to all students of international politics."-Aurel Braun Professor of International Relations and Political Science University of Toronto

?This work is primarily a critical analysis interspersed with inspired satire about the current international order....this book is worthwhile to anyone familiar with Western involvement in the Balkans and in need of another perspective.?-Political Science Quarterly

"This work is primarily a critical analysis interspersed with inspired satire about the current international order....this book is worthwhile to anyone familiar with Western involvement in the Balkans and in need of another perspective."-Political Science Quarterly

About the Author

MIRON REZUN teaches political science and the economics of transition at the University of New Brunswick in Canada. He has published eleven works of non-fiction, including Saddam Hussein's Gulf Wars (Praeger, 1992), Europe and the War in the Balkans: Toward a New Yugoslav Identity (Praeger, 1995), and Science, Technology and Ecopolitics the USSR (Praeger, 1996). He has also published two novels.