Dec 15, 2006

New Publication: Anna Di Lellio (ed) The Case for Kosova. Passage to Independence

Anna Di Lellio (ed) The Case for Kosova. Passage to Independence, London: Anthem Press, 2006.

Debates on Kosova have largely concentrated either on ideology and myth construction, ignoring translations into practice; on geo-politics, missing the deep implications for stability and security; or on policy, lacking a conceptual understanding of both ideologies and processes. There is no book that links these different fields in a persuasive manner. The Case for Kosova fills this gap with intellectually challenging and politically relevant debate.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

FOREWORD - Muhammedin Kullashi (Universitè de Paris VIII)

Introduction- Anna Di Lellio

Chapters

1.Is Kosova a late creation of the Yugoslav state and should it be considered the cradle of the Serb nation? Isa Blumi (Georgia State University)

2.Were Albanians always on the side of the Ottoman Empire against Christian powers? Isa Blumi

3.Is it true that Albanians in Kosova are not Albanians, but descendants from Albanized Serbs? Noel Malcolm (Oxford University)

4.Is the Muslim conversion of Albanians the main cause of the estrangement between Slavs and Albanians? Noel Malcolm

5.Is it true that Albanians invaded Kosova? Alain Ducellier (Universitè de Toulouse)

6.Is it true that Albanians are responsible for an orchestrated campaign to destroy Kosova’s cultural heritage in modern times? Andrew Herscher (University of Michigan)

7.Have ethnic and religious animosities caused the destruction of the artistic and cultural heritage of Kosova during the Ottoman period? Malchien Kiel (Director of the Netherlands Historical and Archaeological Institute in Istanbul (NHAI)

8.Was the Albanian opposition to the Serb Kingdom’s annexation in 1912
without justification? Ivo Banac (Yale University)

9.Is the complaint about the Serb state’s deportation policy of Albanians between the two World Wars based on myth? Noel Malcolm

10.Is it true that Tito’s Yugoslav policies favored Albanians in Kosova? Ivo Banac

11.Is it true that Albanians collaborated with Nazi Germany during WWII? Bernd Fischer (Purdue University)

12.Did Albanians in Kosova breach their voluntary commitment to join Yugoslavia in 1945? Owen Pearson.

13.Have Albanians been against a peaceful solution to the question of Kosova’s autonomy? Howard Clark (Coventry University)

14.Have Albanian terrorism and separatism been the cause of the Yugoslav state violence during the 1990s? Howard Clark

15.Was the KLA a criminal, terrorist and Islamist organization? Stacy Sullivan (IWPR)

16.Is it true that there is no right of self-determination for Kosova? Paul Williams (American University and PILPG) and Jennifer Ober (PILPG)

17.Was the 1999 NATO intervention an illegal war against the Former Republic of Yugoslavia? Paul Williams and Catherine Croft (PILPG)

18.Is it true that the NATO bombing and the KLA were responsible for the Albanian refugee crisis and that the number of Albanians killed during the war has been grossly exaggerated? (Excerpts from AAAS/ABA-CEELI Report)

19.Were Albanians responsible for reverse ethnic cleansing after the war? Vjosa Dobruna (President of the RTK Board)

20.Is it true that an independent Kosova will inevitably be a mono-ethnic state, unless Serb communities and their territories become autonomous? Albin Kurti (Self-Determination Movement)

21.Is it true that a human rights culture, respectful of minorities, is impossible in Kosova? Julie Mertus (American University)

22.Would an independent Kosova be an Islamist state? Dom Lush Gjergj

23.Would Kosova survive economically as an independent state? Henry Perritt (Chicago-Kent Law College)

24.Is it true that Kosova cannot govern itself and needs further international tutelage, or conditional independence? Besnik Pula (University of Michigan)

25.Is it true that Kosova is a clannish society still regulated by the Kanun, or the customary law, and does not belong to the West? Besnik Pula

26.Is Greater Albania a threat? Paulin Kola (BBC)

27.Is it true that the independence of Kosova will destabilize the Balkans and endanger the possibility of stabilizing other areas of the world, for example Chechnya or Nagorno Karabach? Janusz Bugajski (Center for Strategic and International Studies)

28. Is it true that decentralization is the key to security and stability
in Kosova?
Isa Blumi and Anna Di Lellio

Afterword, Ismail Kadare.

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