Was the Rambouillet Agreement a Better Solution Than the Kumanovo Agreement? Comparative Sectorial Analysis of Security Risks to the Republic of Serbia and Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija Cover Image

Da li je "Rambuje" bio bolji od "Kumanova"? Uporedna sektorska analiza bezbednosnih rizika po Republiku Srbiju i srpski narod na Kosovu i Metohiji
Was the Rambouillet Agreement a Better Solution Than the Kumanovo Agreement? Comparative Sectorial Analysis of Security Risks to the Republic of Serbia and Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija

Author(s): Milan Krstić
Subject(s): International relations/trade, Security and defense, Inter-Ethnic Relations
Published by: Fakultet političkih nauka Univerziteta u Beogradu
Keywords: Kosovo; Rambouillet Agrement; Kumanovo Agreement; security; Republic of Serbia; Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija
Summary/Abstract: This paper compares security consequences of the solutions for Kosovo crisis from June 1999 (Military-Technical Agreement signed in Kumanovo and United Nations Security council Resolution 1244) with potential consequences of the draft agreement proposed in Rambouillet and Paris in February and March 1999, which Serbian (FRY) delegation refused to sign. The paper conducts comparative analysis of security risks to two referent objects: 1) the Republic of Serbia; 2) Serbian population in Kosovo and Metohija. Analytical framework used for this paper derives from the copenhagen School of security studies and it measures security dynamics in five different sectors (military, political, economic, environmental and societal security). The main thesis of this article is that solutions from Rambouillet contained significantly less risk to security of Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija in almost all of the sectors, while in the terms of security of the Republic of Serbia, both solutions had approximately equal degree of risks. The only exception was the societal sector, where solutions from June 1999 were less risky and therefore more acceptable for Serbia.

  • Page Range: 117-141
  • Page Count: 25
  • Publication Year: 2016
  • Language: Serbian