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Kosovo: Historical Background to the Current Conflict (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date June 3, 1999
Report Number RS20213
Report Type Report
Authors Steven J. Woehrel, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
Summary:

This short report discusses the historical background to the current conflict in Kosovo. It also includes a short suggested reading list. For background and current developments on the Kosovo issue, see Kosovo and U.S. Policy , by Steven Woehrel and Julie Kim, CRS Issue Brief 98041, updated regularly. For a discussion of military operations in Yugoslavia during World War II, see Yugoslavia: World War II resistance operations and their implications for the current war , by Robert L. Goldich, CRS Report RL30177. A complete list of CRS products on Kosovo can be found at http://www.loc.gov/crs/kosovo.html.