This Paper addresses the question of Western European responses to the initial stages of the breakdown of the Yugoslav Federation. Its analytical framework offers a structural realist perspective for assessing the difficulties inherent in applying the precepts of preventive diplomacy

The current geopolitical transition in global interstate relations from a unipolar power structure, in which American primacy was largely uncontested and generally acknowledged, to a multipolar international system characterized by the relative decline of the United States and what Zakaria...