title: Why the Balkans?
abstract: After trying to ignore the Balkans after the Cold WarCold War , the United States led NATONATO military interventions there at the height of the unipolar momentUnipolar moment in 1995 (BosniaBosnia ) and 1999 (Kosovo)Kosovo to stop wars that Washington feared would taint the post-Cold WarCold War world. Those interventions and a diplomatic one in MacedoniaMacedonia in 2001 were relatively successful, because they included serious international guarantees as well as major, multilateral, postwar p