ABSTRACT
Having examined the dissolution of Yugoslavia in its domestic and international contexts, it remains to examine the international responses to these events. This chapter adopts an institution-specific examination, highlighting the major policy approaches of the chief institutions which became involved in the Yugoslav conflict. The proliferation of international institutions and Non-Governmental Organisations throughout the twentieth-century makes it impossible to examine every organ which became involved in the Yugoslav crisis and this chapter is limited in a number of ways. First, it discusses only the approaches of the major actors in the crisis, these being the European Communities, the Conference for Security and Co-Operation in Europe, the United Nations, the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance and the Western European Union. Second, it deals only with the major policy initiatives of these institutions and does not attempt to analyse every resolution or statement made during the course of the conflict. Third, since the book is concerned the period of Yugoslavia's dissolution, the institutional analysis focuses specifically on this period and only briefly mentions involvement thereafter. Fourth, the analysis excludes the role played by the Badinter Commission, which is considered in chapters 5 and 6.
