Abstract

Based on recently declassified U.S. sources from the Clinton Presidential Library and the State Department’s Freedom of Information Act Virtual Reading Room, this article looks into Bill Clinton’s and Boris Yeltsin’s statecraft to save the post-Cold War U.S.-Russia partnership during the Kosovo War in 1999. The war deepened the rift between Russia and the West jeopardizing the policy of mutual integration and accommodation. Clinton’s and Yeltsin’s personal diplomacy helped Russia to play a constructive role in the search for a peace settlement and the complete withdrawal of Serbian troops from Kosovo. Despite domestic protest in Moscow, Yeltsin did not join Milosevic but chose to work with the United States and salvage Russia’s relationship with the West.

摘要

基于最近从克林顿总统图书馆和国务院信息自由法案虚拟阅览室解密的美国消息来源，本文探讨了比尔克林顿和鲍里斯叶利钦在 1999 年科索沃战争期间挽救冷战后美俄伙伴关系的治国方略战争加深了俄罗斯与西方之间的裂痕，危及相互融合和包容的政策。克林顿和叶利钦的个人外交帮助俄罗斯在寻求和平解决和塞尔维亚军队完全撤出科索沃方面发挥了建设性作用。尽管莫斯科国内抗议，叶利钦并没有加入米洛舍维奇，而是选择与美国合作，挽救俄罗斯与西方的关系。