Consequences of NATO intervention in Yugoslavia

Abstract

The article shows that the Kosovo challenge is misrepresented, that fundamental geostrategic interests are hidden by the moral rhetoric securing NATO primacy in relation to the UN, creating a military machine that will be intervening around the globe, whenever it decides that it interests are threatened, redrawing the Balkan map, sending a message to all other potential violators of future NATO ultimatums. The local, regional and global consequences of NATO bombing are taken up from the standpoint of internal democratization, regional stability and the global rule of law. The author concludes that although it is in principle legitimate to defend citizens from the arbitrary use of force by their own state and prevent huge humanitarian catastrophes, in a situation when the character of global institutions and the distribution of global power remain unchanged arbitrary application of force, in these circumstances means only further extension of conditions for the violation of human rights, systematic creation of conditions for humanitarian catastrophes.