The Bill Clinton’s administration policy toward the Western Balkan region

Authors

  • Ю. І. Козловська Odesa I. I. Mechnikov national university, Ukraine

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18524/2304-1439.2014.1(20).39431

Keywords:

Bosnian war, crisis in Kosovo, USA, administration of Bill Clinton, Clinton’s doctrine

Abstract

Current article is aimed at discovering of peculiarities of the US policy in the Western Balkans. It is revealed in this article that the Western Balkan region has no special priority within the foreign policy of the United States, even though Bill Clinton’s administration used it as the launching platform for establishing itself as a single global leader. The United States entrusts the European Union with solving of the practical issues resulting from the problems in the economic, political, ethnical and humanitarian spheres, which are inherent to the analyzed region. Nonetheless the US keeps control over the main leverages used to solve key issues.

Author Biography

Ю. І. Козловська, Odesa I. I. Mechnikov national university

Y. Kozlovska

Published

2015-03-20

Issue

Section

UKRAINE AND WORLD. INTERNATIONAL MEASURING OF TRANSFORMATION PROCESSES