Demonstrates that in the post-Cold War era, US leadership becomes more crucial than ever. A case study of diplomatic efforts with regard to Albania coupled with America's response to the crisis in Bosnia, highlights the weakness of US policy in the former and its outright failure in the case of the latter. Xhudo, who gained his PhD at the University of St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland, seeks to show the history of Western, especially US, policy failure and short-sightedness in the region and how past trends have invoked present failures. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, observers and players of American foreign policy have been wrestling with what US policy is and, more importantly, what it should be in the post-Cold War era. The breakdown of communism in the East has coincided with the outbreak of warfare in the former Yugoslavia to add a new sense of urgency for those seeking a direction for US foreign policy. This work seeks to demonstrate how reactive rather than proactive measures by the US, in both democracy promotion and in crisis management, have been short-sighted, resulting in the present failure.
