ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the restructuring of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) by focusing on the difficulties of intervention that struck its members. It presents the initial reaction of the Western states to the outbreak of war in the Balkans. The chapter argues that their diplomatic efforts lacked common understandings on the management of this sort of foreign crisis and on the role of NATO. The chapter examines, through the involvement in Bosnia, how NATO, an international organisation originally created as an anti-Soviet alliance, changed. It also explains how unsuccessful international conflict management raised concern over the credibility of government leaders of the states in manoeuvring security issues. The chapter reviews the discussions about the reorganising of NATO by exploring how the experiences in the past four years were reflected in the process. It concludes with the relationship between state-society relations and the reforms in NATO.
