Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 A Brief History of the Alliance Chapter 3 NATO Post-Cold War, 1991- 99 Chapter 4 A Brief History of Yugoslavia: 1989 - 92 Chapter 5 NATO and Bosnia, 1993 - 95 Chapter 6 NATO and the Balkans: 1996-98 Chapter 7 War in Kosovo and its Aftermath, 1999 Chapter 8 NATO and the Former Yugoslavia: Lessons Learned
The Dawn of Peace in Europe describes Europe's new common security order, assesses the alternatives to it, and analyzes the conditions necessary for its continuation.
This study examines whether there has been a decline in the risk of death by battle during wars, testing the 'long peace' hypothesis. The analysis relies on the Expanded War Dataset (Gleditsch, 2004) covering intra- and inter-state wars between 1816-2007. Using untransformed data on war sizes, the estimates do not provide empirical evidence for a decline in war over time. However, normalising the data for global human population does illustrate a likely decline in war from 1947 onward. The results indicate that despite strong population growth wars have not become more severe.