| ID | 110093 |
| Title Proper | Historical, military-political and international law aspects of the Kosovo problem |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Iskenderov, P |
| Publication | 2011. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | THE DETERIORATION of the situation in the Serb-populated northern part of Kosovo, paralleled by the deepening of the EU crisis, underscored the inefficiency of the efforts and approaches supposed to help resolve a bitter dispute over Serbia's breakaway province. It became abundantly clear that the attempts made since late 2010 to reach compromise via technical talks between Belgrade and Pristina radicalized both parties to the conflict and put in jeopardy the fragile political balance across the Balkans rather than produced appreciable results. The cause of the problem is that since the late 1990s the U.S. and the EU have been engaging in geopolitical games around Kosovo, considering the province as a proving ground for strategies waiting to be applied on a much wider scale and aimed at putting greater territories with their natural resources and infrastructures under Western control. Due to the complexity of the legacy with which the region is burdened and to the interplay of divergent present-day influences, the West's Kosovo project failed to reach completion, tensions in and over the province became chronic, and the EU saw its already questionable unity in foreign policy and military affairs seriously eroded. |
| `In' analytical Note | International Affairs (Moscow) Vol. 57, No. 6; 2011: p.121-132 |
| Journal Source | International Affairs (Moscow) Vol. 57, No. 6; 2011: p.121-132 |
| Key Words | Kosovo ; Serbia ; European Crisis ; Foreign Policy ; Europe ; History |