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Mediation in the Yugoslav Wars

The Critical Years,1990-95

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  • © 2002

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  1. Saadia Touval
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Part of the book series: Advances in Political Science (ADPOSC)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    • Saadia Touval
    Pages 1-14

  3. Failed Attempts to Prevent War

    • Saadia Touval
    Pages 15-38

  4. The Entry of Mediators

    • Saadia Touval
    Pages 39-47

  5. The Ceasefire in Slovenia

    • Saadia Touval
    Pages 49-60

  6. The Search for a Comprehensive Settlement

    • Saadia Touval
    Pages 61-86

  7. The Ceasefire in Croatia

    • Saadia Touval
    Pages 87-102

  8. Collective Mediation in Bosnia, 1992–94

    • Saadia Touval
    Pages 103-133

  9. US Policy and the Making of the Dayton Accords

    • Saadia Touval
    Pages 135-169

  10. Priorities

    • Saadia Touval
    Pages 171-184

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 185-211
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Has any good come out of the efforts to mediate the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia? The short answer is, 'Yes, but...' Mediation has brought about agreements that halted the fighting in Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia. Yet, the negotiations took too long, and their achievements came too late. Between 1991 and 1995 some two hundred thousand people lost their lives, and close to two million were uprooted from their homes. Saadia Touval examines why the efforts to reach a negotiated solution have not been more effective. He calls attention to two lessons: that collective mediation faces much greater obstacles than mediation by individual states, and that a mediator's priority should be saving lives, rather than aiming at other objectives, or even pursuing justice.

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'Touval's effort is a well-balanced and sober look at the contradictions between self-determination and state sovereignty...' - Choice

'...this well-written book is a welcome addition to the literature on the breakup of Yugoslavia.' - Peter Radan, Slavic Review

About the author

SAADIA TOUVAL teaches at the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, John Hopkins University. He has written extensively on conflicts in Africa and the Middle East, and on mediation in international politics.

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