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NORBERT BOTH From Indifference to Entrapment The Netherlands and the Yugoslav Crisis 1990-1995 AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY PRESS From Indifference to Entrapment From Indifference to Entrapment The Netherlands and the Yugoslav Crisis 1990-1995 N B A U P Cover illustration: Dutch military men leaving for Croatia. Photo: ANP, Rijswijk Cover design: Kok Korpershoek [KO], Amsterdam Lay-out: Magenta, Amsterdam ISBN 90 5356 453 5 © Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, 2000 All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this book may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise), without the written permission of both the copyright owner and the author of this book. To Jan and Ada Contents Preface 9 Abbreviations 13 Chronology 15 Introduction 25 1 The Netherlands and its Foreign Policy System 45 2 An Emerging Challenge, July 1990-June 1991 69 3 From ‘Even-Handedness’ to ‘Selectiveness’ 101 The Dutch EC Presidency, July-December 1991 4 Moral and Political Entrapment 143 International Peace Plans for Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1992-1994 5 Military Entrapment 181 The Commitment to Srebrenica, 1993-1995 Conclusion 225 Bibliography 243 Index 257 Preface This book is based on my PhD thesis from the University of Sheffield, which I successfully defended in May. As I have been employed by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs since October 1998, it was ar- ranged that I should offer a copy of the thesis to two separate official investigations that were being conducted in the Netherlands.
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