ABSTRACT
Human rights violations, including those in foreign countries, also gained attention from the Clinton Administration in addition to its domestic agenda. Humanitarian intervention appeared to be a new mission for the United States in the post-Cold War era, an approach that was not highly welcomed abroad or among a significant segment of the American people. The contested province of Kosovo remained a source of tension, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) intervention in 1999 aroused international suspicion that the United States was attempting to establish new international norms that allow military intervention on humanitarian grounds, thus replacing the national sovereignty and non-interference principles, which were codified in the UN Charter as the established basis for the international order. The backdrop of the Kosovo air bombing campaign by NATO in 1999 was the continued brutality of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevi to counter separatist trends among the Kosovars, and his rejection of the Rambouillet peace agreement.
