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NATO’s 1999 intervention in Kosovo was highly contested and seen as a turning point in international responses to mass violence. Making use of a new dataset on so-called “humanitarian military interventions” since the Second World War, the author examines the extent to which the Kosovo intervention has indeed initiated new trends. A comparison with other cases shows that NATO’s Operation Allied Force differed from other military interventions with a declared humanitarian purpose. Moreover, the author introduces a typology of humanitarian military interventions and proposes a new measurement of their outcome that can facilitate comparative research.

Democratization in ethnically divided post-civil war societies is usually a laborious undertaking. In contrast, the Macedonian peace process looks like a success story. After the fighting of 2001, the remodeling of the state institutions as laid down in the peace agreement could be advanced successfully, and the political leadership of the disbanded Albanian National Liberation Army (UÇK) morphed into a new Albanian party. The present report explains why Macedonia could still not serve as a model for other post-civil war societies and it identifies the shortcomings and potential for destabilization in this young democracy.