War over Kosovo : politics and strategy in a global age

While some analysts view the war for Kosovo as a one-sided affair of passing importance, this volume insists otherwise.

To a greater extent than any other since the end of the Cold War, the war in Kosovo revealed the distinctive attributes of a new American "way of war".

In so doing, the conflict also brought into sharp focus the dilemmas - military, political and moral - confronting a liberal democracy intent on wielding pre-eminent power on a global scale.Was Kosovo a genuine human crusade or an excuse in quasi-imperial policing?

Does the precedent set by intervention of this type point toward peace and stability or towards more war?

How well suited are the United States military and American society as a whole to the security challenges of the age of globalzation?

What are the moral implications posed by waging high-tech warfare for humanitarian purposes?According to the authors, gauging the "success" achieved in Kosovo yields answers to these and other related questions.

The volume contains a historical overview of the war and six essays that place it in it's broader context.