Download or read book Kosovo Murky Reality written by Sinisa Ljepojevic and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-10-30 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apart from historians, almost nobody in the world heard of Kosovo, a province of Serbia, a small landlocked territory in the heart of the Balkans, until March 24 1999, when NATO started a bombing campaign against then Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Since June 1999 Kosovo is under the international administration, a kind of the UN protectorate. On 17 February 2008 Kosovo's majority Albanians unilaterally proclaimed independence from Serbia under the supervision of the EU and the NATO. It is illegal and violates the Helsinki Final Act and UN Charter. Less then 40 out of 192 UN member states have recognised Kosovo as independent. Despite the declaration of independence the international administration is to stay in Kosovo. So, Kosovo continues in a state of limbo. Is Kosovo really independent? Kosovo has become a symbol of deep crisis in international relations much more so than Iraq and Afghanistan. Therefore, Kosovo's case is not closed and the story goes on. However, the fate of Kosovo,for the time being, does not depend of its citizensbut of the international community and, most of all, of its economy. Theeconomy almost does not exist and the present Kosovo is incapable of standing on its feet. This book is trying to shed a light on those two crucil elements - the international community policy and Kosovo's economy.
Download or read book Bibliography of Sources on the Region of Former Yugoslavia Volume III written by Rusko Matuli? and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 1998 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kosovo written by Dragan Lozancic and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assesses the progress of Kosovo since the 1999 NATO intervention, and factors affecting its recent declaration of independence.
Download or read book Kosovo and Metohija written by Siniša Ljepojević and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Moving Kosovo forward written by Amadeo Watkins and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kosovo written by Julie Mertus and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999-08-09 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the foundations of conflict in Kosovo, charging that the international community's failure to support the Albanians in their initial passive resistance to Serbian repression led to violence.
Download or read book Kosovo written by Tim Judah and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-09-29 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On February 17, 2008, Kosovo declared its independence, becoming the seventh state to emerge from the break-up of the former Yugoslavia. A tiny country of just two million people, 90% of whom are ethnic Albanians, Kosovo is central-geographically, historically, and politically-to the future of the Western Balkans and, in turn, its potential future within the European Union. But the fate of both Kosovo, condemned by Serbian leaders as a "fake state" and the region as a whole, remains uncertain. In Kosovo: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Tim Judah provides a straight-forward guide to the complicated place that is Kosovo. Judah, who has spent years covering the region, offers succinct, penetrating answers to a wide range of questions: Why is Kosovo important? Who are the Albanians? Who are the Serbs? Why is Kosovo so important to Serbs? What role does Kosovo play in the region and in the world? Judah reveals how things stand now and presents the history and geopolitical dynamics that have led to it. The most important of these is the question of the right to self-determination, invoked by the Kosovo Albanians, as opposed to right of territorial integrity invoked by the Serbs. For many Serbs, Kosovo's declaration of independence and subsequent recognition has been traumatic, a savage blow to national pride. Albanians, on the other hand, believe their independence rights an historical wrong: the Serbian conquest (Serbs say "liberation") of Kosovo in 1912. For anyone wishing to understand both the history and possible future of Kosovo at this pivotal moment in its history, this book offers a wealth of insight and information in a uniquely accessible format. What Everyone Needs to Know® is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press.
Download or read book Kosovo written by Tim Judah and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Om det spændte forhold mellem albanere og serbere i Kosovo, som har eksisteret siden middelalderen, og som til sidst førte til NATOs bombardement og Kosovos forvandling fra serbisk provins til internationalt protektorat
Download or read book Beyond the Mountains of the Damned written by Matthew McAllester and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2003-11 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journalist examines the war in Kosovo.PW Best Book of the Year - Nonfiction, 2002
Download or read book The Kosovo Report written by and published by . This book was released on 2000* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ideals and Reality in the Humanitarian Intervention and Statebuilding in Kosovo written by Alex Great and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kosovo Intervention and Statebuilding written by Aidan Hehir and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-01-21 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines international engagement with Kosovo since NATO’s intervention in 1999, and looks at the three distinct phases of Kosovo’s development; intervention, statebuilding and independence. Kosovo remains a case study of central importance in international relations, illustrative of key political trends in the post-Cold War era. During each phase, international policy towards Kosovo has challenged prevailing international norms and pushed the boundaries of conventional wisdom. In each of the three phases 'Kosovo' has been cited as constituting a precedent, and this book explores the impact and the often troubling consequences and implications of these precedents. This book explicitly engages with this debate, which transcends Kosovo itself, and provides a critical analysis of the catalysts and consequences of contemporary international engagement with this seminal case study. Each chapter focuses on a particular aspect of the international engagement with Kosovo and situates events there in an international context, highlighting the extent to which international policy towards Kosovo has challenged existing norms and practices. Kosovo has been cited in certain texts as a positive template to be emulated, but the contributors to this book also identify the often controversial and contentious nature of these new norms. This book will be of much interest to students of humanitarian intervention and statebuilding, war and conflict studies, security studies and IR in general. Aidan Hehir is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Westminster.
Download or read book The War in Kosovo written by Stewart Ross and published by Raintree. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the history of the recent conflict in Kosovo and the NATO intervention against Serbia.
Download or read book Reality Demands written by International Crisis Group and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report, based on field research and direct evidence from victims and witnesses, reconstructs events from March to June, 1999, during the period of the Yugoslav offensive on seven municipalities in south western Kosovo. The Humanitarian Law Documentation Project was conceived in response to the ethnic cleansing and the forced exodus of the population from this region into the neighbouring countries. Their report analyses the conflict and focuses on violations of international humanitarian law within the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. It explains the legal provisions applicable, defines the mandate and jurisdiction of the ICTY and presents a legal analysis of the facts that qualify as serious violations of international humanitarian law.
Download or read book Kosovo written by DICK. ZANDEE LEURDIJK (DICK.) and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-03 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2001.This text adresses the Kosovo conflict. The authors analyze the conflict using a number of different themes: the impact on current events, the attempts to find a solution, the need for military intervention, why airstrikes were made, the effectiveness of air power and its limitations, the political breakthrough, the structure of peace and its implementation, and the results so far. The aim of the book is to provide a deeper understanding of this conflict.
Download or read book Kosovo written by Noel Malcolm and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: with a new introduction by the author"What could have been mere academic hairsplitting in the hands of another author is transformed by Malcolm into a thrilling detective story." --New York Times Book Review"Excellent." --The New York Review of Books"In this awe-inspiring work, Malcolm has created an essential aid to anyone who wishes to understand this tragic region today. . . . His book is exceptional not only for his unimpeachable research, but also for his equitable examination of the conflicting ethnic views of what really happened in this contentious region, and his determination to debunk dangerous myths." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)"A book every policy expert, journalist and lay person must read." --Wall Street Journal"Malcolm's narrative is gripping, even brilliant at times. . . . He takes to his task with the vigor of a detective driven by true passion. At times his claims are, in terms of Balkan history, quite revolutionary." --The Economist
Download or read book Kosovo written by Mary Buckley and published by Continuum. This book was released on 2001 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nato intervention in Kosovo marked a major turning point in post cold war international relations. While some western commentators argued that it was the first war to be fought on purely moral grounds, Serbian, Russian and Chinese assessments were sharply different.This highly original addition to the literature on Kosovo highlights the importance of perspective to an understanding of both the causes and consequences of war. It makes clear that the conceptual lenses, paradigms or frameworks through which political actors view reality in turn affect their understanding of the behaviour of others and their reactions to it. The authors, a team of regional experts on the countries covered, examine the way the war has been understood in countries involved in and peripheral to the conflict. Their aim is to provide a broad yet highly nuanced picture of this focal point of Balkan unrest.The book opens with an introduction to the historical and regional context of the conflict. The authors go on to present twelve case-studies, ranging from Serbia, and the other former Yugoslav republics, to the USA and to China. These detailed regional studies highlight the considerable variation in the key states' perceptions of their national interest and their perceptions of what constitutes legality or legitimacy. In each case, domestic constraints are explored and the ways in which differing perspectives of political and military leadership fed into the crisis are examined. Further thematic chapters determine the war's consequences and the lessons to be drawn in terms of the wider issues of refugees, humanitarian intervention, European security, and geopolitics.
