THE ALBANIAN-SERBIAN CONTROVERSY IN KOSOVO: 1980-2010 (Spór albansko-serbski w Kosowie w latach 1980-2010)

• Authors: Szczepanski Wojciech
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The article outlines the latest history of a former Yugoslav province that less than three years ago, following a fiasco of international negotiations on its status, unilaterally proclaimed sovereignty. Issues connected with tense Albanian-Serbian relations are highlighted, bringing into relief the key moments in the evolution of Albanian separatist tendencies in Kosovo and some mechanisms of the political game played by Belgrade, Prishtina and the international community regarding Kosovo in the 1990s (until the outbreak of an open armed conflict over the province between NATO and Yugoslavia in the spring of 1999). The situation of Kosovo between 1999-2009 is characterized through data on the transformation of this province's legal and political systems and a model according to which international presence on its territory was realized since June 1999 (taking into account the similarities and differences between the period prior to the acceptance of regulations included in the so-called Ahtisaari plan by the international community and Kosovars, and the period following acceptance of the plan in 2007).

Keywords

EN

AHTISAARI PLAN; ALBANIAN-SERBIAN RELATIONS; CONFLICT; INDEPENDENCE; KOSOVO

Discipline

• POLITICAL_SCIENCES: POLITICAL SCIENCES

• Publisher: Instytut Zachodni. Instytut Naukowo-Badawczy im. Zygmunta Wojciechowskiego w Poznaniu
• Journal: Przegląd Zachodni
• Year: 2010
• Issue: 4(337)
• Pages: 139-154
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Szczepanski Wojciech

• Wojciech Szczepanski, Instytut Zachodni, Instytut Naukowo-Badawczy, 61-854 Poznan, ul. Mostowa 27, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11PLAAAA094021