| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 350 pages) |
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Claims to Kosovo : nationalism and self-determination / Židas Daskalovski -- Kosovo or Kosova -- could it be both? The case of interlocking Serbian and Albanian nationalisms / Dejan Guzina -- Ethnic prejudices and discrimination : the case of Kosovo / Lazar Nikolić -- The limits of non-military international intervention : a case study of the Kosovo conflict / Stefan Wolff -- Rambouillet : a critical (re)assessment / Elizabeth Allen Dauphinee -- When doves support war and hawks oppose it : an analysis of humanitarian intervention in Kosova / Leon Malazogu -- The theory of humanitarian intervention with special regard to NATO's Kosovo mission / Gábor Sulyok -- War on Kosovo : a victory for the media? / Marina Blagojević -- Religion in Kosovo and the Balkans -- blessing or curse? / Laurie Johnston -- The UN in Kosova : administering democratization? / Besnik Pula -- Ethnic borders to a democratic society in Kosova : the UN's identity card / Isa Blumi -- The European Union and humanitarian intervention in Kosovo : a test for the Common Foreign Policy / Cristina Churruca Muguruza -- Questioning reconstruction : reflections on theoretical foundations for conceptualizing reconstruction in Kosovo / Jens Stilhoff Sörensen -- Regional perspectives for an independent Kosovo -- Albania and Macedonia / Aldo Bumci -- Kosovo independence and Macedonian stability : is there any alternative to the nationalistic discourse? / Goran Janev -- Serbia after the Kosovo War : the defeat of nationalism and change of regime / Florian Bieber |
| Summary |
The war in Kosovo has been a defining moment in post-Cold War Europe. Kosovo has great importance beyond the Balkans as the most ambitious attempt of the international community to prevent internal conflicts and rebuild a society destroyed by war and ethnic cleansing. As the danger of ethnic conflict prevails in the region and elsewhere around the world, the experience of Kosovo offers important lessons. This is a comprehensive survey of developments in Kosovo leading up to, during and after the war in 1999, providing additionally the international and regional framework to the conflict. I |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization fast |
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Kosovo War, 1998-1999.
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HISTORY -- General.
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Ethnic relations
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Politics and government
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Kosovo (Republic) -- Ethnic relations
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Balkan Peninsula -- Politics and government -- 1989- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91000164
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Serbia
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Balkan Peninsula
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Kosovo (Republic)
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Yugoslavia
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bieber, Florian.
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Daskalovski, Židas.
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| LC no. |
2002041473 |
| ISBN |
0203500733 |
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9780203500736 |
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1135761558 |
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9781135761554 |
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1280175656 |
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9781280175657 |
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