For more than forty years, Western policymakers defined
communism as the central threat to international peace and
stability. They responded by confronting it with a counterbalancing
threat of force, and pursuing a strategy of containment. With the
collapse of communism, the challenge to peace and stability in the
Euro-Atlantic community has changed. Soviet expansionism has been
supplanted by powerful, internal forces arising out of the clash of
competing ethnic nationalisms. This challenge, argues Steven L.
Burg, cannot be met by force alone, or neutralized through a
strategy of containment. It requires Western states to act
decisively to influence the internal political development of the
post- communist states themselves.
Burg surveys the challenges that the ethnic diversity in Eastern
Europe present to domestic stability, international peace, and
American interests, and suggests policies and practices by which
the United States and its allies might contribute to the
consolidation of peace in the region. He provides a concise
explanation and analysis of the issues, evaluates the usefulness of
scholarly approaches to the resolution of ethnic conflicts, and
offers a strategy of what he calls preventive engagement by which
policymakers may prevent conflicts such as the one that destroyed
the former Yugoslavia.
War or Peace? offers clear and direct recommendations to guide
both interested citizens and national policymakers as they attempt
to grapple with the complexities of ethnic and nationalist politics
in Europe.
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