The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was born out of the need to strengthen the capacity of a war-devastated Europe in order to defend itself against and deter a Soviet Union which was rapidly consolidating itself under communism and strengthening its military power. After the collapse of t...

Probably one of the most interesting facts about Belgrade is that it exists at all. In its long history, it has been devastated more than twenty times. The reasons people continued living there is that it ocupies a vital strategic position at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, and lies o...

There are many ways in which humanitarian intervention is viewed as a quintessentially "liberal" foreign policy practice, from the fact that liberal-democratic states have the principle initiators and the important role accorded to international institutions and the traditionally liberal c...