THE DIFFICULTIES IN PREDICTING THE FINAL RESULT OF THE EU-FACILITATED KOSOVO-SERBIA DIALOGUE. AN ANALYTICAL APPROACH
THE DIFFICULTIES IN PREDICTING THE FINAL RESULT OF THE EU-FACILITATED KOSOVO-SERBIA DIALOGUE. AN ANALYTICAL APPROACH

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to shed some new light on a long-standing dialogue whose outcome is difficult to foresee. This is because, since it started, it has been a dialogue without a time frame or a clear final goal. It was also a dialogue, followed by ambiguity about the facilitator/mediator and the parties. Thus, the paper provides insight into the current state of the dialogue, built on a process that began more than a decade ago. Authors provide a description and analysis of the process's principal components, highlighting shortcomings arising from either the parties' willingness to finalize a potential agreement or from weaknesses in EU facilitation and in the performance of its representatives as facilitators. For this paper, the authors used a combined methodology comprising comparative, legal, teleological, and descriptive analyses.

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