2008年2月17日、コソボ共和国はセルビアからの独立を宣言し、旧ユーゴスラビアの崩壊から7番目の国家となりました。人口わずか200万人、その9割がアルバニア人という小国ながら、地理的、歴史的、政治的にも、西バルカン半島のみならずEUの中での将来性という意味合いでも中心的な存在です。しかし、セルビアの指導者たちから「偽りの国家」と非難されているコソボとこの地域全体の運命は、依然として不透明なままです。
本書では、この地域を長年にわたって取材してきた著者が、この複雑な場所に対する多くの疑問に簡潔かつ鋭く答えています。アルバニア人やセルビア人のルーツ、そしてその関係性とは。そしてコソボはこの地域と世界でどのような役割を果たしているのか。現在の状況を明らかにし、そこに至った歴史と地政学的な力学について説明します。その中で最も重要と考えられるのは、セルビア人が主張する領土保全の権利に対する、コソボのアルバニア人が主張する自決権の問題です。多くのセルビア人にとって、コソボの独立宣言とその後の承認は彼らの民族の誇りを打ち砕くトラウマになっています。一方で、アルバニア人は、1912年にセルビア人がコソボを征服(セルビア人は「解放」と言う)したのは歴史的な過ちであると考えていることから、自分たちの独立を権利だと信じているのです。コソボの歴史と未来を理解しようとするすべての人に、豊富な洞察をコンパクトに提供します。
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.
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
"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
ISBN : 9780195373455
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