The military intervention by NATO in Kosovo was portrayed in American media as a necessary step to prevent the Serbian armed forces from repeating the ethnic cleansing that had so deeply damaged the former Yugoslavia. Serbia trained its military on Kosovo because of an ongoing armed struggle by ethnic Albanians to wrest independence from Serbia. Warfare in the Balkans seemed to threaten the stability of Europe, as well as the peace and security of Kosovars, and yet armed resistance seemed to offer the only possibility of future stability. Leading the struggle against Serbia was the Kosovo...
The military intervention by NATO in Kosovo was portrayed in American media as a necessary step to prevent the Serbian armed forces from repeating ...
This book tells the story of Kosovo s independence, from the periodic bloodshed of the twentieth century to the diplomacy that led to a determination of Kosovo s final status as a state in 2008. Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia in February 2008, over the objection of Serbia and Russia. This culminated more than a hundred years of sometimes violent resistance to what the majority Albanian population considered to be occupation by foreign forces first those of the Ottoman Empire, then those of Serbia, and finally by the United Nations. Kosovo s independence was the product of...
This book tells the story of Kosovo s independence, from the periodic bloodshed of the twentieth century to the diplomacy that led to a determination ...
