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As a Serb, I empathize with my compatriots' anger and frustration over losing Kosovo. But as a reporter who witnessed the atrocities against ethnic Albanians in the '90s, I can understand that the vast majority of them would under no circumstances accept living under Serbian patronage, even though Milosevic is...
Russia, China and several European countries claim that an independent Kosovo sets a dangerous precedent, encouraging separatist movements throughout the world, from Taiwan to Nagorno-Karabakh. To this, the United States and its European allies reply that Kosovo is a unique case, and that other regions would not be allowed...
The Harvard Kennedy School announced yesterday that Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the first elected female head of state in Africa, will deliver the school’s graduation speech on June 4. Johnson-Sirleaf is a 1971 graduate of the school’s Mason Fellows Program, a mid...
And it's such long-standing fissures that pop up across the continent - many of whose modern nation states folded in diverse kingdoms and peoples - that shape Europe's responses to Kosovo's historic, and potentially precedent-setting, declaration of independence. Europe is divided over whether to recognize the new...
For those who support Kosovo's claims for independence, it is largely a question of giving greater weight to the "on-the-ground" reality over the claims of Serbia to Kosovo as a cradle of their national identity. To opponents, however, the question is one of international law, national sovereignty...