Kosovo – can everything “agreed” get done this month?
Following the Belgrade-Pristina April accords, the parties agreed to an implementation plan which remains just an outline with important details still to be determined. It seems... Read More
Where things stand
As it becomes clear that the arrangement between Belgrade and Pristina is no more decisive than was Dayton or so many other internationally supervised agreements,... Read More
Kosovo – what role will US combat troops play in the north?
While sending US combat troops to Kosovo may be just a benefit of drawdowns elsewhere, the Germans, Americans and Austrians – the three largest national... Read More
Kosovo Serbs, Serbian nationalist intellectuals, and officials of the Milošević Regime – part two
The consolidation of support for the social movement among Kosovo Serbs and the efforts of Milošević to break the resistance of Kosovo’s officials to the... Read More
Multiculturalism in Kosovo – the case of the historic centre of Prizren
The cultural heritage of Prizren has long been one of peaceful coexistence, yet various political agendas – both international and domestic – have chosen to... Read More
Fear and loathing in Kosovo
The conflict over the north has been – and remains – zero sum. No matter what the Kosovo Albanians say to their internationals, the local... Read More
Kosovo – the truth will set the Serbs in the north free
The status quo in the north is neither stable nor productive. Whatever responsibility Albanians have, Serbs must accept their own responsibility for the lack of... Read More
Agreement between Kosovo and Serbia
The agreement is an important step in the direction of establishing good-neighbourly relations between the two countries, although it does not determine the ultimate success... Read More
Kosovo Serbs, Serbian nationalist intellectuals, and officials of the Milošević Regime
This mobilization of the Kosovo Serbs played an important part in the political struggles in late socialist Yugoslavia. Many specialists claim that the mobilization of various... Read More
Kosovo – more negotiations
For progress to be made, there needs to be a second set of negotiations, this time with the northern Kosovo Serbs. As long as they... Read More
Kosovo – Belgrade moving too fast?
The pace of events over the north should not be dictated by getting an EU date in June. That’s just not a reasonable amount of... Read More
Reasons and causes of Serbian migration from Kosovo
The reasons for migrations were manifold, but public opinion believed them to be fear, pressure, inequality, and the failure of legislation to protect people and... Read More
Kosovo – what should the northerners do?
If the northerners come to decide it worth the effort to try to make the agreement into something they can live with, resistance as a... Read More
1981 demonstrations in Kosovo
By branding the 1981 protests as the continuity of “Albanian counterrevolution”, the Yugoslav leadership was in denial about the real problems facing Kosovo: its unequal political status,... Read More
Kosovo – implementing the agreement
Brussels should delink EU accession from implementation of the Pristina-Belgrade agreement. Granting Serbia a date in June would still leave many years to track the... Read More
Kosovo – some hope but bigger dangers?
The agreement initialled by the prime ministers of Serbia and Kosovo offers on only an outline of a possible approach. Even if everyone accepted this... Read More
Yugoslavia – the constitution of 1974 and some political results
Higher rates of Albanian participation in the political institutions of the 1970s federation would suggest that ethnic Albanians accepted the political system and that they... Read More
Kosovo – what next from Pristina and friends?
A continued frozen conflict over north Kosovo is not the best option. It would have been better for the EU to break itself free of... Read More
Issues surrounding the Kosovo Albanians and their political and economic status
One of the major controversies of ‘Kosovo under Autonomy’ concerns the demands of the Kosovo Albanians for political and economic equality in the SFRY, the League of... Read More
Kosovo – so what is Plan B?
It is about the time to settle the issue of the north as a continued frozen conflict is good for no one. Indeed, stalemate leaves... Read More
Demographic changes in Kosovo – 1974–1981
The demographic development in Kosovo is one of the most topical and at the same time one of the most delicate questions that researchers are currently facing.
Kosovo – talks need not remain stalled over courts and police
Despite EU and US pressure, the latest round of talks between Belgrade and Pristina failed to produce agreement on the north and an “association” of... Read More
Serb municipalities in Kosovo and Kurdish reform in Turkey
The ethnic-oriented Dayton constitution and Sejdic-Finci imbroglio is a great example of how the ethnicization of constitutions further divides a post-conflict multi-ethnic society. Turkey and... Read More
Kosovo under autonomy
Kosovo Under Autonomy endeavors to provide new analyses of several controversies surrounding the relationships between Albanians and Serbs in Kosovo between 1974-1990: the causes of... Read More
Kosovo – is Belgrade seeking a Republika Srpska?
The Quint would be rightly concerned over a Serbian demand to give an association its own powers, funds and representation at central level. That would be... Read More
