MANAGING THE KOSOVO CRISIS AND THE CHANGING DIMENSION OF WEST EUROPEAN SECURITY

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1. Introduction
2. Concept of Nationalism and Ethnicity
3. Balkan Region and Kosovo: Geostrategic Significance for
European Security
4. The Kosovo Crisis: Background
5. The Kosovo Peace Agreement'
6. Peace in Kosovo: Institutional Structure
7. West European Security: Lessons from Kosovo Issue
8. The Lessons Learned
9. Conclusion

MANAGING THE KOSOVO CRISIS AND THE CHANGING DIMENSION OF WEST EUROPEAN SECURITY

Author: Lailufar Yasmin

DOI Link: https://www.doi.org/10.56888/BIISSj2000v21n2a4

ABSTRACT

The forty years of cold peace of Europe has been challenged in the 1990s with the upsurge of age-old ethno-nationalistic claims in the East and Central European countries. With the break up of Yugoslavia, the tide of hyper-state nationalism, imminent in the Serbs, started to threaten the peace and stability of Europe, the recent manifestation of which has been seen by the brutal onslaught of the Kosovar Albanians in Kosovo. The Kosovo crisis shows the importance to address ethno-nationalistic problems in the broader agenda of European security policy for the greater interest of Europe to emerge as an integrated political unit, as envisaged by the planners of the European Union. This article discusses the background of Kosovo crisis and the institutional framework to establish peace in Kosovo. It also attempts to show some of the lessons particularly important for European security learned from the Kosovo crisis.

BANGLADESH INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AND STRATEGIC STUDIES

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