The evolution of US policy-making toward Southeast Europe in the Post-Cold War period

Abstract

US policy toward the Bakans in the 1990’s seemed at once to give a new,
post-Cold War peeminence to Southeast Europe, and to maintain a sort of
status quo in the manner in which policy was actually formulated. Using an
analytical scheme designed by Kegley and Wittkopf, this essay seeks to
understand this apparent paradox, and to elucidate the tentative points at
which a new policy paradigm emerged, particularly after 1995. The paper
closes with contemporary observations by policy insiders which presage both
the Kosovo crisis of 1999 and the National Security Doctrine of George W.
Bush.