Abstract
In 1995, NATO ground forces were sent to Bosnia on their first out-of-area mission. Four years later, NATO went to war with Yugoslavia in an attempt to solve the impasse regarding the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation in one of its provinces, Kosovo. Within a few years, then, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) had completely thrown overboard its out-of-area policy from the Cold War: that of not having one. To put this new active NATO role in perspective, this article attempts to explain why NATO ended up with a non-policy on out-of-area issues during the Cold War.1
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Liland, F. (2001). Explaining NATO’s Non-Policy on Out-Of-Area Issues During the Cold War. In: Schmidt, G. (eds) A History of NATO — The First Fifty Years. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-65576-2_12
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