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Date: March 24, 1999
"Kosovo: NATO at War with Yugoslavia"? A Panel Discussion at Princeton
PRINCETON, N.J. -- Diplomats and experts on foreign policy will gather for a panel discussion on "Kosovo: NATO at War with Yugoslavia?" at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Monday, March 29, at 7:30 p.m. in Robertson Hall, Dodds Auditorium.
Kosovo's ethnic Albanians are seeking independence for their province in southern Serbia, where they outnumber Serbs, but Serbs value Kosovo as the birthplace of their culture and church. "NATO's decision to launch airstrikes against Yugoslavia when attempts to find a peaceful solution failed ushers in a new era in foreign policy," noted Wolfgang Danspeckgruber, director of Princeton's Liechtenstein Research Program on Self-Determination.
The invited panelists include Danspeckgruber; Stephen J. Flanagan, the National Security Council's director of European affairs and author of NATO's Conventional Defenses and Securing Europe's Future; James Gow, a professor in the King's College Department of War Studies and author of Triumph of the Lack of Will: International Diplomacy and the Yugoslav War; Ambassador Dieter Kastrup, permanent representative of Germany to the United Nations; Denko Maleski, formerly the Macedonian minister for foreign relations and ambassador to the United Nations, currently a professor at the University of Skopje in Macedonia; and Richard Ullman, Princeton's David K. E. Bruce Professor of International Affairs, whose most recent book is The World and Yugoslavia's Wars.
The panel will be moderated by Michael Doyle, director of Princeton's Center of International Studies.
The discussion is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School and the Liechtenstein Research Program on Self-Determination.