"In the first paper, US Policy Towards Secession In The Balkans And Effectiveness Of De Facto Partition, Evelyn Farkas addresses inherently non-military contextual challenges encountered by military forces during NATO efforts to make or enforce peace in Bosnia and Kosovo. She highlights significant problems that have emerged in both former Yugoslavian states; namely, that the initial progress towards establishing stable multiethnic states has been stalled by criminal networks and the lack of functioning central governments. She concludes that civil and military peace implementers must be more aggressive in administering the protectorates NATO has established in order to advance the political and economic reforms that are needed to achieve a lasting peace. Her efforts help to detail the struggle of institution-building that accompanies peace enforcement and peacekeeping efforts."--INSS website. "In the second paper, Improving US-Russian Relations Through Peacekeeping Operations, Beth Makros and Jeremy Saunders use Bosnia and Abkkhazia peacekeeping interventions as case studies to show the need for, and possible strategic benefits from, improving cooperation during combined or multinational peacekeeping operations. Not only do they outline the major weaknesses of Russian peacekeeping efforts and spell-out the differences between Russian and American peacekeeping doctrine, but they identify a major US weakness in combined settings: the lack of US peacekeepers[alpha] knowledge of the Russian language and culture and how such knowledge would improve the ability of US troops to effectively function in the field with their Russian counterparts within these combined settings. Their paper highlights both the wider potential benefits that can be gained from multinational operations and the further complexity and requirements they generate in order to ensure such broad success."--INSS website.

"June 2001."