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Kosovo: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Kosovo: What Everyone Needs to Know®
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  • Offers succinct, penetrating answers to a wide range of questions on the complicated place that is Kosovo
  • Reveals how things in Kosovo stand now and presents the history and geopolitical dynamics that have led to it
  • Provides a wealth of insight and information in a uniquely accessible format

 

     
On February 17, 2008, Kosovo declared its independence, becoming the seventh state to emerge from the break-up of the former Yugoslavia. A tiny country of just two million people, 90% of whom are ethnic Albanians, Kosovo is central - geographically, historically, and politically - to the future of the Western Balkans and, in turn, its potential future within the European Union. But the fate of both Kosovo, condemned by Serbian leaders as a "fake state" and the region as a whole, remains uncertain.
    
In Kosovo: What Everyone Needs to Know, Tim Judah provides a straight-forward guide to the complicated place that is Kosovo. Judah, who has spent years covering the region, offers succinct, penetrating answers to a wide range of questions: Why is Kosovo important? Who are the Albanians? Who are the Serbs? Why is Kosovo so important to Serbs? What role does Kosovo play in the region and in the world? Judah reveals how things stand now and presents the history and geopolitical dynamics that have led to it. The most important of these is the question of the right to self-determination, invoked by the Kosovo Albanians, as opposed to right of territorial integrity invoked by the Serbs. For many Serbs, Kosovo's declaration of independence and subsequent recognition has been traumatic, a savage blow to national pride. Albanians, on the other hand, believe their independence rights an historical wrong: the Serbian conquest (Serbs say "liberation") of Kosovo in 1912.
    
For anyone wishing to understand both the history and possible future of Kosovo at this pivotal moment in its history, this book offers a wealth of insight and information in a uniquely accessible format.

Index: 

Preface: Why Kosovo?
Albanians
Serbs
Creating History
From Dardania to Yugoslavia
Kosovo in Yugoslavia
From the Golden Age to the Memorandum
The Milosevic-Rugova Years
The War
Kosovo after 1999
March 2004 and the Ahtisaari Plan
Kosovo and the Region
Kosovo and the World
Not the Last Chapter: Independence

About the author: 

Tim Judah is a correspondent for The Economist covering the Balkans. He is the author of Kosovo: War and Revenge, and The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia.

"A straightforward guide to the history and geopolitics of Kosovo and the first book on the country since its declaration of independence in February this year."--The Economist
     

"Packs a surprising amount of nuance into a slim volume... a solid introduction to an important topic."--Booklist
    

"Judah does a commendable job of telling the dense story in an understandable fashion. Because the region changes so quickly, an up-to-date history like this is welcome."--Library Journal
    

"[A] concise and updated version of his longer and more detailed history published in 2000...Judah's short history of Kosovo is a fair and sympathetic account of an impossible situation..."--New York Review of Books

Product details

ISBN : 9780195373455

Author: 
Tim Judah
Pages
208 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
138 x 209 mm
Pub date
Sep 2008
Series
What Everyone Needs to Know
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Kosovo: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Kosovo: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Kosovo: What Everyone Needs to Know®