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The 1999 Kosovo crisis posed a serious challenge to concept of cooperative security. After the end of the Cold War, Europe, together with the US and Canada, made some progress in devising a new security architecture. However, the wars in the former Yugoslavia demonstrated the inability of the new international order to live up to expectations. For the fourth time in eight years, Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic sought to resolve an ethnic problem through ethnic cleansing. This time, however, the West responded with greater determination and resolve. This book critically examines the efforts of various actors to resolve the Kosovo crisis by means of cooperative security, and considers the problems that arose after the conflict was over. It also sheds light on the broader regional and international aspects of that crisis.