Peace at Any Price: How the World Failed Kosovo is a 2006 book by Iain King and Whit Mason.

[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] The book explains this history with sections on Kosovo's security and the rule of law; inter-ethnic relations; political developments; hearts, minds and culture; and economy.

[13] It draws on Kai Eide's Report of 2005, which criticized the international community's performance in Kosovo, and was approved unanimously by the United Nations Security Council.

[14] The book has 226 citations in other published works, and features in university reading lists on politics, conflict studies and international relations.

This is less than Western democracies hoped for when they intervened to stop barbarities in 1999, and much less than most of the thousands of foreigners and Kosovans believed they were working towards between 1999 and 2005.”[13] It attributes this poor performance to six mistakes made by the international community: The book concludes with ten lessons for future interventions.