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СЛУЧАЈ КОСОВА – ЈЕДИНСТВЕНА ПРОИЗВОЉНОСТ
KOSOVO CASE – A UNIQUE ARBITRARINESS

Author(s): Radmila Nakarada
Subject(s): International Law, International relations/trade, Evaluation research, Politics and Identity
Published by: Српско социолошко друштво
Keywords: Serbia; Kosovo and Metohija; territorial integrity; self-determination; international law; weak states; violence; USA; EU; UN;

Summary/Abstract: The end of Cold war, contrary to expectations has brought new conflicts and forms of violence, new divisions and new relativizations of the international legal order. Taking as an example the endevours to resolve the Kosovo conflict, the author attempts to indicate the broader implications of the international effors to constitute an independent state on part of the territory of an existing sovereign state. The arguments used to justify the redefinition of the borders of the Serbian state without its consent, the moral, democratic, peace arguments, are reviewed. Particular attention is paid to the argument that Kosovo is a unique case and therefore unique rules should be applied. The author seeks to understand the deeper significance of these efforts, concluding that dismanteling the present international legal order is not only a potential danger but a possible aim.

  • Issue Year: 41/2007
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 305-325
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Serbian