March-June 1999
NATO, Kosovo, and the Threat of a
New Cold War
Experts Warn of Re-Emergence of a
Deadly East-West Divide
Following up on its NATO expansion campaign of 1998, the Mainstream Media Project resumed work on the issue before the March 1999 accession ceremony for new candidate nations (Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic). We secured substantial national and international coverage of the event and its implications for peace and security. As it turned out, NATO began bombing Serbia just two weeks later, focusing public and media attention on East-West security issues like few events since the end of the Cold War. We immediately expanded our campaign and continued it until after the NATO bombing ceased in June.
MMP scheduled and completed 293 interviews, of which 170 were either nationally or globally syndicated. Some 84 individuals participated in the Kosovo campaign, a new record for MMP.
We experimented with new services we hope to include in future foreign policy campaigns. In cooperation with the Internews Network and New York Universitys Center for War, Peace, and the Media, we offered stations and networks access to foreign correspondents reporting from Macedonia and London, relief coordinators working in Kosovo, Albania, and Macedonia, and Kosovar Albanian refugees. These individuals spoke live by satellite phones with radio hosts (and listeners to call-in shows) on local U.S. stations as well as national and international networks.
This kind of interaction brings a whole new dimension to news gathering, eliminating the media gatekeepers who normally control all questioning of correspondents, victims, and other participants in conflicts and giving an active role to radio listeners. After Jennifer Glasse called in her three-minute daily updates for NPR's "Morning Edition," MMP booked her for interviews as long as an hour in length. We agreed to work with her in the same fashion on her future assignments in war-ravaged regions of the world.
Guest Speakers by Topic
Is Bombing the Best Course? Are There Alternatives?
Adm. Eugene Carroll (ret.), Deputy Director, Center for Defense Information
Brig. Gen. Stephen Allen Cheney (ret.), Former Inspector General, United States Marine Corps
David Cortright, President, Fourth Freedom Forum
Daniel Ellsberg, Former Defense Department official who released "Pentagon Papers"
Chris Hellman, Chief of Staff, Center for Defense Information
Col. Dan Smith (ret.), Chief of Research, Center for Defense Information
Lt. Col. Piers Wood (ret.), Researcher, Center for Defense Information
Reports From the Front: Correspondents, Relief Workers, and Refugees
Milica Pesic (London), Serbian Journalist; Director, European Center for War, Peace and the News Media
Chris Bennett (London), Senior Editor, Balkan Crisis Report, Institute of War and Peace Reporting; Author, Yugoslavias Bloody Collapse
Tony Borden (London), Editor, Balkan Crisis Report
Eran Fraenkel (Macedonia), American journalist; Balkan expert
Jennifer Glasse (Macedonia), National Public Radio Correspondent
Jeremy Hartley (Macedonia), Communications Director, UNICEF
Paul Hockenos, Balkans Analyst, Berlin Information Center for Transatlantic Security
Otfried Nassauer, Director, Berlin Information Center for Transatlantic Security
Mikhail Pogorely (Moscow), Center for War, Peace, and the Media
Laura Silber, Journalist, Financial Times; Author, The Death of Yugoslavia
Simon Springett (Tirana, Albania), Head of Mission, Action Against Hunger
Lucas Van Den Broeck, Program Officer, Action Against Hunger
Milos Vasic (Zagreb), Serbian Journalist, Vreymya, The War Report
Jean-Francois Vidal, Executive Director, Action Against Hunger
The Clinton Doctrine: Do We Have a Foreign Policy?
George Kenney, Former Balkans Desk Officer, U.S. State Department
Michael Klare, Director, Peace and World Security Studies Program, Hampshire College
Michael Mandelbaum, Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
John Steinbruner, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Is It Legal?
Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, Congressman (R-MD)
Richard Falk, Professor, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Lee Halterman, Attorney and Managing Partner, Dellums, Brauer, Halterman and Associates
Rep. Dennis Kucinich, Congressman (D-OH)
Carlin Meyer, Professor of Law, New York Law School
Michael Ratner, Attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights
Should NATO Be the World's Policeman?
Martin Butcher, British American Security Information Council (BASIC)
Ben Cohen, Founder, Ben & Jerrys; President, Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities
Jonathan Dean, Former Ambassador; Senior Advisor, Union of Concerned Scientists; Former Chief U.S. Arms Control Negotiator
Adm. Sir James Eberle, Royal Navy
Susan Eisenhower, Director, Center for Political and Strategic Studies
Tasos Kokkinides (London), Senior Analyst, British American Security Information Council (BASIC)
Alistair Millar, Director, Washington office, Fourth Freedom Forum
Julianne Smith, European Security Analyst, British American Security Information Council (BASIC)
Tomas Valasec, Eastern Europe Analyst, Center for Defense Information
Steven Young, Senior Analyst, British American Security Information Council (BASIC)
Impacts on the Military Budget: The Costs of Conflict
William Hartung, Director, Arms Trade Research Center, World Policy Institute
John Isaacs, President, Council for a Livable World
Impacts on Relations with Russia
Stephen Cohen, New York University, Widely Published Analyst of Russian Politics
John Lewis Gaddis, Professor, Yale University
Katrina vanden Heuvel, Editor, The Nation magazine
Jack Matlock, Former Ambassador; Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University
Mikhail Pogorely, Russian Analyst, New York University Center for War, Peace, and the News Media
Steven Schelesinger, Director, World Policy Institute
John Steinbruner, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Impacts on Relations with China
Gary Bertsch, Director, University of Georgia Center for International Trade and Security
Richard Cupitt, Associate Director of Research, University of Georgia Center for International Trade and Security
Bruce Dickson, Professor, Department of Asian Studies, George Washington University
Jeffrey Fiedler, Co-Founder, Laogai Foundation; President, AFL-CIO Food & Allied Services Division
Bates Gill, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
John Holden, President, National Committee on U.S.-China Relations
Chalmers Johnson, Japan Policy Research Institute
Ken Lieberthal, National Security Council
Michel Oksenberg, Stanford University China specialist
Douglas Paal, President, Asia Pacific Policy Center
Harry Wu, Executive Director, Laogai Research Foundation
Effects on Arms Control and Nonproliferation
Jacqueline Cabasso, Executive Director, Western States Legal Foundation
Joseph Cirincione, Director, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Nonproliferation Program
Senator Allan Cranston, (D-CA ret) Former Senator; Chair of the State of the World Forum
Igor Khriponov, Associate Director in charge of the projects in the former Soviet Union, University of Georgia Center for International Trade and Security
Arjun Makhijani, President, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
Jonathan Schell, Author, The Gift of Time and The Fate of the Earth; Nuclear Abolitionist
Impacts on the United Nations
Charles Lyons, President, U.S. Committee for UNICEF
International Law: How Can War Criminals Be Brought to Justice?
Benjamin Ferencz, Director, Pace University Law School; Former Nuremberg Prosecutor
Henry T. King, Jr., Professor, Case Western Reserve University Law School; Former Nuremberg prosecutor
Glen Rangwala, Movement for the Advancement of International Criminal Law
Grassroots Responses: Waging Peace from Below
Sarah Cameron, The Hague Appeal; Consultant to UNICEF
Graca Machel, First Lady of South Africa
Ed Miles, Associate Director, Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation
Tony Murphy, Media Coordinator, Stop the Bombing March on Washington, International Action Center
Cora Weiss, President, The Hague Appeal for Peace
Karina Wood, U.S. Outreach Coordinator, The Hague Appeal for Peace
Small Arms: Stopping the Flow of the Weapons Doing the Killing
Edward Laurance, Small Arms Specialist, Monterey Institute for International Studies
Child Soldiers: Wars First Victims
Jo Becker, Chairperson, International Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers
Carol Bellamy, Executive Director, UNICEF
Rachel Stohl, Coordinator, Children in Warfare Project, Center for Defense Information
Ballistic Missile Defense: Will It Work? Is It Worth the Cost?
Jack Mendelsohn, U.S. Naval Academy and Arms Control Association; Former Senior Officer, U.S. Mission to NATO
John Pike, Space Policy Director, Federation of American Scientists
Ted Postol, Physicist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Missile Defense Expert
