Masters of the Universe?: NATO's Balkan CrusadeTariq Ali Verso, 2000 - 429 páginas NATO's war on Yugoslavia in the spring of 1999 was unleashed in the name of democracy and human rights. This view was challenged by the world's three largest countries, India, China and Russia, who saw the bombing of Serbia and Kosovo as a naked attempt to assert US dominance in an unstable world. In the West, the media networks were joined by substantial sectors of left/liberal opinion in supporting the war. Nonetheless, a wide variety of figures emerged to challenge the prevailing consensus. Their work, gathered here for the first time, forms a collection of key statements and anti-war writings from some of democracy's most eloquent dissidents—Noam Chomsky, Harold Pinter, Edward Said and many others—who provide carefully researched examinations of the real motives for the US action, dissections and critiques of the ideology of 'humanitarian warfare', and chartings of the unnecessary tragedy of a region laid to waste in the pursuance of Great power politics. This reader presents some of the most important texts on NATO's Balkan crusade and forms a major intervention in the debate on global geo-political strategy after the cold war. Contributors include Giovanni Arrighi, Robin Blackburn, Alex Callinicos, David Chandler, Régis Debray, John Gittings, Peter Gowan, Diana Johnstone, Oskar Lafontaine, Harold Pinter, Robert Redeker, Edward Said, Ellen Wood, Susan Woodward, Yevgeny Yevtushenko and Slavoj Zizek. |
Índice
The EuroAtlantic Origins of NATOs Attack on Yugoslavia | 3 |
The Balkan War and US Global Power | 46 |
How the West Blundered into a | 57 |
USA China Russia | 99 |
Making the Crime fit the Punishment | 147 |
Humanitarianism and War | 171 |
The Ideology of Humanitarian Intervention | 175 |
Kosovo and the New Imperialism | 190 |
The Criminalization of Albania | 285 |
Open Letter from a Traveller to the President of the Republic | 319 |
The NATO Action in Serbia | 327 |
Be More Careful With The Balkans | 337 |
NATOs Balkan Crusade | 345 |
The War of NATO Expansion | 360 |
May Day Speech at Saarbrücken | 381 |
The Kosovo Peace Accord | 387 |
Building States from Nations | 203 |
This | 204 |
Prototype of a NATO Protectorate | 271 |
The China Card | 397 |
Unite | 411 |
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