Cutting or Tightening the Gordian Knot

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Table of Contents Foreword Predrag Jureković 5 Welcome Speech Johann Pucher 7 Background Speech Judy Batt 13 PART I: THE STATUS PROCESS AND ITS IMPLICATONS FOR KOSOVO AND SERBIA 19 The Status Process and Its Implications for Kosovo and Serbia Lulzim Peci 21 PART II: THE IMPACT OF THE KOSOVO DEVELOPMENT ON REGIONAL STABILITY 27 The Independence of Kosovo and the Consolidation of Macedonia – A Reason to Worry? Zhidas Daskalovski and Dane Taleski 29 Implications for Southern Serbia Shelly Ross 59 The Secession of Kosovo – A Precedent for the Region? Heinz Vetschera 77 PART III: THE ROLE OF THE INTERNATIONAL ACTORS 103 The Future International Presences in Kosovo Karin Marmsoler 105 3
Kosovo’s Independence: The Consequences for EU Integration Policy Franz-Lothar Altmann 117 Kosovo: America’s “NATO State” in the Balkans? Matthew Rhodes 125 The Russian “Return” to the Western Balkans Martin Malek 135 PART IV: CONFIDENCE BUILDING UNDER DIFFICULT CIRCUMSTANCES 145 From UNMIK to EULEX: An Outline of the Key Aspects of Governance, Cooperation and Confidence-Building Under the Conditions of International Supervision Enver Hasani 147 International Support to Enhance Confidence Building in Kosovo Wolfgang Benedek 159 Untying the Gordian Knot in the Balkans: Realpolitik, “Business as Usual” or Thinking “Outside the Box” on Dialogue, Reconciliation and Integration into Euro-Atlantic Structures for Serbia and Kosovo? Dennis J.D. Sandole 171 PART V: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 205 Conclusions and Recommendations Predrag Jureković 207 List of Authors and Editors 213 4
Page 1 and 2: Ernst M. Felberbauer Predrag Jureko
Page 3: Impressum: Study Group Information
Page 7 and 8: This book includes contributions fr
Page 9 and 10: Groups and co-operates with the Swi
Page 11 and 12: the region. Austria wants to make s
Page 14 and 15: Background Speech Judy Batt Regiona
Page 16 and 17: taken as “given”, i.e. psycholo
Page 18: to encourage Serbia to believe it w
Page 22 and 23: The Status Process and Its Implicat
Page 24 and 25: undermine elements within the Serbi
Page 26: the Western Balkans are a common an
Page 30 and 31: The Independence of Kosovo and the
Page 32 and 33: with Slovenia, experienced an evolu
Page 34 and 35: Although separated from their Kosov
Page 36 and 37: terial posts. Throughout the years
Page 38 and 39: the participation of the Macedonian
Page 40 and 41: Effectively, the legal changes base
Page 42 and 43: veys on the perception of the Kosov
Page 44 and 45: Regarding citizen’s feelings towa
Page 46 and 47: the final status of Kosovo was a mu
Page 48 and 49: Table 5. Should Macedonia recognize
Page 50 and 51: ings of the CRPM’s phone poll don
Page 52 and 53: called Gostivar flag riots in 1997
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nian groups that objected to a well
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ovo independence and further on the
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State Statistical Office of the Rep
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State of Southern Serbia The area k
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not always readily seen, this may b
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ity among the Albanian population.
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wever, apparently multi-ethnic comm
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firms) are seen in abundance, but r
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forceful than initially expected, f
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unlikely that the Albanian communit
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Conclusion As a region for which co
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The Secession of Kosovo - A Precede
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The findings would then allow for a
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This changed with the adoption of t
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While most of the provisions could
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ing up to the demands of granting
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ance, inter alia by settling Serbs
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Kosovo thus served as a catalyst fo
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As a rule, Albanians have been evic
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“facilitating of a political proc
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As a result, none of these argument
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deputies. Other Albanian Parties ex
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volved to the Entities. Key issues
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lack the key criteria for justifiab
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PART III: THE ROLE OF THE INTERNATI
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Notwithstanding this clear-sketched
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opean Affairs. Four support staff,
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the institutions, a regular assessm
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tighter. Furthermore, the deploymen
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able to kill two birds with one sto
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Kosovo’s Independence: The Conseq
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pating under its own sovereign term
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companying offer of free visa issue
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which would mean the exclusion and
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Bondsteel (“Kosovo’s real capit
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The NATO Toolbox Critique of NATO d
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Allied Divisions Persistent disunit
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Meanwhile, Kosovo has been nearly i
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The Russian “Return” to the Wes
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štunica, and Tomislav Nikolić are
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strong enough to fight NATO troops
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Some Aspects of Russian Economic Ex
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people. 17 A sizeable share of it c
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From UNMIK to EULEX: An Outline of
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security for all. They have in fact
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sense this happened in Kosovo in Ma
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European Presence in Kosovo as an A
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Rifts Among Local Partners and Comp
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deal with. This proved to be very d
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International Support to Enhance Co
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in 1975 are human contacts, informa
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ion. It also aims at post-crisis ca
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ety in its functions, in particular
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WUS has also assisted in founding a
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Conclusions Although many roads hav
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Untying the Gordian Knot in the Bal
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his diminutive physical stature, he
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simple recollection; it is a shared
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For our purposes here, the Battle o
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younger generation through its rela
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My God, what awaited us! To see a l
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Examples of conflict-as-symptoms ar
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grassroots levels. They have contac
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In the research literature where PD
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Grassroots Leadership Grassroots tr
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If a trauma victim makes it to leve
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Conclusion The essential point of d
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more to further enhance prospects f
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quires constant attention and engag
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ionists riled by another Belfast pr
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Ramsbotham, Oliver, Tom Woodhouse a
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PART V: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 205
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d. optimizing the influence of the
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support for the return of Serbs as
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association process. On the other h
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RHODES Matthew, College of Internat
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