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Learning the Lessons of Ethnic Conflict Management? Conditional Recognition and International Administration in the Western Balkans since the 1990s

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Stefan Wolff
Stefan Wolff*
Affiliation:
Centre for International Crisis Management and Conflict Resolution, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK. Email: [email protected]
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The unilateral declaration of independence by Kosovo in February 2008 catapulted the Western Balkans back to the centre stage of international security concerns. Despite affirmations to the contrary, the recognition of Kosovo's independence by major Western powers is seen as a significant precedent in international law and the way in which self-determination conflicts are handled by the international community. At the same time, it raises major questions for the stability of borders across the Western Balkans region, and possibly beyond. At the centre of many of these questions is the role of the international community—defined by the international and regional organizations present in the region, as well as by their powerful member states—in tackling the complexity of interrelated self-determination conflicts, incomplete democratization processes, growing concerns about the economic viability of the successor states of the former Yugoslavia and an ever-increasing presence of transnational organized crime networks with significant reach beyond the region.

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 36 , Issue 3 , July 2008 , pp. 553 - 571
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Copyright © 2008 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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