Yet more recently, President Bill Clinton "warned of the ills of unrestrained nationalism." Stating, "Militant nationalism is on the rise....transforming the healthy pride of nations, tribes, religious, and ethnic groups into cancerous prejudice, eating away at states and

leaving their people addicted to the political pain-killers of violence and demagoguery." This statement most clearly portrays the United States recent impetus upon NATO to use persuasive military force in order to prevent the Yugoslavian government from cracking

down on ethnic Albania separatists in the renegade region of Kosovo.

In order to better understand the current crisis in Kosovo and NATO's threat to use military force against the Serbs, one must foremost delve into the organization of European powers, the United State's strategy urging NATO to act, and the long standing history between ethnic minorities in Kosovo, from a realist point of view.

nationalism. This being most clearly portrayed in the opening of past injuries inflected upon the Serbs by another ethnic group, the ethnic Albanians. Who can be most closely associated with the Muslim Ottoman Turk Empire, to whom they once belonged. By declaring themselves a separatists group in the Republic of Serbia, the Serbian

reactionary environment that ultimately led to conflict in 1996 and continuing into much

remembered mythically as though the past were the present." A view which NATO sees as a threat to the other ethnic minorties of the Balkans, but since the Balkan states with the exception of Greece are not members of NATO, one questions the authority that NATO has in trying to protect the collective security of Europe, when its mission clearly states "the military authorities of the sending State shall have the right to exercise within the receiving State all criminal and disciplinary jurisdiction conferred on them by the law of the sending State over all persons subject to the military law of that State."

of international powers and the structure of that very organization. If this were to continue into the future, the United State's attempt to "globalize" international relations, would in the realist sense, back fire, and America would be the victim of its own policies.

powerful members of NATO should have the same authority in matters that are closer to other member states. The result of the United State's actions brings certain questions to the forefront of international politics. Should the European allies who want a serparate European defense and security identity go along with their project?

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