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15 - Kosova

From Resisting Expulsion to Building on Independence

from Part Four - Yugoslav Successor States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 September 2019

By
Frances Trix
Edited by
Sabrina P. Ramet  and
Christine M. Hassenstab
Sabrina P. Ramet
Affiliation:
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim
Christine M. Hassenstab
Affiliation:
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim
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Summary

This history of Kosova since 1989 can be divided into three periods: the period of Serbian rule and Albanian resistance leading to war in 1998–1999; the nine-year period under the United Nations Interim Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK); and the period since Kosova declared its independence in March 2008. In this chapter I focus on institutional transformations of the three periods, economic issues, and interethnic relations of Kosovar Albanians and Serbs. I also contextualize major events and present initiatives of international mediators such as Kai Eide and Martti Ahtisaari. Kosova is the youngest country in Europe. It suffers from high unemployment, poverty, and corruption, as well as isolation due to the European Union’s continued refusal to accord its citizens visa-free travel with the rest of Europe. At the same time it has a committed diaspora population and was able to pull together at crucial times in its history. I present several of its recent leaders, including Ibrahim Rugova, Shpend Ahmeti, Albin Kurti, and Atifeta Jahjaga.

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KosovaAlbaniansSerbsMiloševicRugovaexpulsionsUNMIKindependenceeconomy
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Central and Southeast European Politics since 1989 , pp. 399 - 424
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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Further Reading

International, Care. “Has Peacebuilding Made a Difference in Kosovo?” (July 2006), at www.careinternational.org.uk.Google Scholar
Cojocaru, Alexandru. 2017. “Kosovo Jobs Diagnostic,” World Bank, Washington, DC License: Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 3.0 IGO at http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27173 [accessed on 2 April 2019].Google Scholar
Di Lellio, Anna. The Case for Kosova: Passage to independence (London: Anthem Press, 2006).Google Scholar
European Stability Initiative. “Cutting the Lifeline: Migration, families and the future of Kosovo” (September 2006), at www.esiweb.org.Google Scholar
European Stability Initiative. “The Lausanne Principle: Multiethnicity, territory and the future of Kosovo’s Serbs.” (June 2004), at www.esiweb.org.Google Scholar
Judah, Tim. Kosovo: War and revenge (New Haven, CT: Yale Nota Bene, 2002).Google Scholar
King, Iain, and Mason, Whit. Peace at Any Price: How the world failed Kosovo (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006).Google Scholar
Malcolm, Noel. Kosovo: A short history (New York: New York University Press, 1998).Google Scholar
Skendaj, Elton. Creating Kosovo: International oversight and the making of ethical institutions (Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2014).Google Scholar
Trix, Frances. “Kosovar Albanians between a Rock and a Hard Place,” in Ramet, Sabrina and Pavlaković, Vjeran (eds.), Serbia since 1989: Politics and society under Milošević and after (Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2005), pp. 311–349.Google Scholar
Trix, Frances. “Underwhelmed: Kosovar Albanians’ reactions to the Milošević Trial,” in Waters, Timothy William (ed.), The Milošević Trial: An autopsy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 229–248.Google Scholar

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  • Kosova
  • Edited by Sabrina P. Ramet, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Christine M. Hassenstab, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim
  • Book: Central and Southeast European Politics since 1989
  • Online publication: 16 September 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108752466.016
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  • Kosova
  • Edited by Sabrina P. Ramet, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Christine M. Hassenstab, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim
  • Book: Central and Southeast European Politics since 1989
  • Online publication: 16 September 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108752466.016
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  • Kosova
  • Edited by Sabrina P. Ramet, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Christine M. Hassenstab, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim
  • Book: Central and Southeast European Politics since 1989
  • Online publication: 16 September 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108752466.016
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