ABSTRACT
In previous chapters an account of the development of NATO's 'peaceenforcement' role has been provided to test for the existence and role of a 'policy community' defined as 'an alliance between sections of national government (composed of officials and politicians) and sections of an international bureaucracy. Members of policy-community have in common shared belief-systems and perspectives on a number of foreign policy and security issues. They influence the policy-making process by intervening in setting agendas and proposing measures during periods characterised by high-level disagreement among political leaders at the international level'. In this chapter the research findings will be discussed by comparing them with other explanations provided by neorealism, neoinstitutionalism and the arguments for and against the theory of 'humanitarian intervention' used to explain NATO's war over Kosovo.
