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103. Ibid., remarks by Senator Barbara A. Mikulski: S 3116.
104. Daalder and O’Hanlon, Winning Ugly, 84.
105. Ibid., 79.
106. The actual text read, “Three years after entry into force of this
Agreement, an international meeting shall be convened to determine
a mechanism for a final settlement for Kosovo, on the basis of the will
of the people, opinions of relevant authorities, each Party’s efforts
regarding the implementation of this Agreement, and the Helsinki
Final Act, and to undertake a comprehensive assessment of the
implementation of this Agreement and to consider proposals by any
Party for additional measures.” Interim Agreement for Peace and
Self-Government in Kosovo, February 23, 1999. Cited in ibid., 86.
107. Ibid., 77–84.
108. Boyer, Kirk, and Young, War in Europe.
Conclusion
1. Interview with Alexander Vershbow, cited in Robinson, The CNN
Effect: The Myth of News, 145.
2. This case study relied extensively on original documents from the
period (press statements/releases, newspaper articles). The majority
of the literature on the Kosovo war focused on the period of the
NATO intervention itself (the 78 days of bombing), not its prelude.
Two good sources that did cover the period of this book’s case study
at some depth were Bellamy, Kosovo and International Society, and
Daalder and O’Hanlon, Winning Ugly.
3. One publication that criticizes the West, in general, and the media,
in particular, is Degraded Capacity: The Media and the Kosovo Crisis,
ed. Philip Hammond and Edward S. Herman(London: Pluto Press,
2000).
4. Racak by itself represented only about two percent of the total deaths
and less than one percent of the total destruction during the civil war.
5. Gellman, “Slaughter in Racak.”
6. Robinson, The CNN Effect: The Myth of News, 83.
7. Gellman, “Slaughter in Racak.”
8. William Jefferson Clinton, “Presidential Press Conference,”
Washington, DC, March 19, 1999.
9. Interim Agreement for Peace and Self-Government in Kosovo,
Rambouillet, France, February 23, 1999.
10. Interview with Dugi Gorani, in Little, Moral Combat.
11. Interview with Hashim Thaci, in ibid.
12. Bellamy, Kosovo and International Society, 118.
13. Interview with Dugi Gorani, in Little, Moral Combat.
14. Several prominent writers on the CNN effect have openly wondered
if the post–September 11 world has effectively killed the CNN effect.