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Zones of Conflict
US Foreign Policy in the Balkans
and the Greater Middle East
Vassilis K. Fouskas
Press
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Pluto
First published 2003 by Pluto Press
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Copyright © Vassilis Fouskas 2003
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Patents Act 1988.
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ISBN 0 7453 2030 9 hardback
ISBN 0 7453 2029 5 paperback
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Zones of conflict : US foreign policy in the Balkans and the greater
Middle East / Vassilis Fouskas.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0–7453–2030–9 –– ISBN 0–7453–2029–5 (pbk.)
1. United States––Foreign relations––Middle East. 2. Middle
East––Foreign relations––United States. 3. United States––Foreign
relations––Balkan Peninsula. 4. Balkan Peninsula––Foreign
relations––United States. 5. United States––Foreign
relations––1993–2001. 6. Balkan Peninsula––Foreign relations––1989– I.
Title.
DS63.2.U5 F68 2003
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To my father Constantine,
who taught me
what democracy and morality mean
through his humble but difficult life
Contents
Acknowledgements
ix
List of Abbreviations
xi
1. Introduction
1
The Realist Chessboard
1
The Structure of the Book
5
Globalisation and European Integration
8
2. The New Geo-politics of Gas and Oil
11
The 1990s: Years of Pandemonium
13
Conflicting Interests: Oil and Gas Projects in Eurasia
16
End of the Cold War?
27
3. Scarface Politics
34
NATO’s ‘New Strategic Concept’
37
Problems of ‘Variable Geometry’
39
Political, Moral and Legal Conundrums: The Kosovo War
44
US Successes
50
Muslims, Christians and Foreign Policy
54
The Limits of NATO
58
4. Near and Middle Eastern Dilemmas
63
The ‘Northern Tier’ and the Greek–Turkish Dimension
64
The Arab–Israeli Conflict
67
Conflict over Cyprus
71
Towards Summer 1974 and After
76
5. Turkish Questions for the West
81
A Democracy Guided by the Military and Used as Such
83
The US and the ‘Turkish Pivot’
91
Summing up the Realist Game
95
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