Conflict in Kosovo: Failure of Prevention? An Analytical Documentation, 1992-1998

Author(s): Stefan Troebst / Language(s): English

The editorial deadline for this documentation was 9 March 1998--the day the Contact Group on Bosnia-Herzegovina emerged as the main international forum to deal with the Kosovo problem in its »new” and much more pressing form. The term Kosovo refers to the administrative unit in the South-western corner of the Republic of Serbia within the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) – a territory of 10,887 square kilometres called Kosova or Kosova dhe Rrafshi i Dukagjinit in Albanian and Kosovo or Kosovo-Metohija (abbreviated Kosmet) in Serbian. The author is indebted to colleagues in three institutions and networks dealing with the Kosovo conflict he has been or is part of: (1) The »International Commission on the Balkans,” founded in 1995 by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Aspen Institute Berlin; (2) a group of contributors to a »Kosovo Policy Study” in the framework of the Conflict Prevention Network of Directorate General 1A of the European Commission at Brussels set up in 1997; and (3), a group of intellectuals from Prishtina and Belgrade as well as external experts brought together for the first time in 1996 by the Bertelsmann Science Foundation and the Research Group on European Affairs at the Centre for Applied Politics of the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich. Farimah Daftary, Kinga Gál, Priit Järve, and William McKinney of ECMI have been supportive—and creative--in searching for documents and materials

THE STABILITY PACT and Lessons from a Decade of Regional Initiatives

Author(s): Gerald Knaus,Marcus Cox,Minna Järvenpää / Language(s): English

In the 1990s, every historical turning point led to the creation of regional organisations in South Eastern Europe. The end of the Cold War brought the Central European Initiative (CEI), an Italian-Austrian initiative with a secretariat in Triest (1989) and the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC), a Turkish initiative with a secretariat in Istanbul. Following the Bosnian War, the European Council initiated the Royaumont Process (1995), soon sponsored mainly by Greece, while a US-led initiative led to the formation of the South East European Cooperative Initiative (SECI), based in Vienna (1996). In 1988, the first regional summit of Foreign Ministers of South Eastern Europe (SFMSEE) was held in Belgrade, to be followed by a summit in Tirana (1990). This tradition was revived after the Bosnian War in 1996. The Kosovo crisis led to the establishment of the Stability Pact Coordinator’s Office, in many ways only the latest, most spectacularly launched, and most ambitious regional initiative.

PACIFIK - Časopis za Kulturu MIra 1992/Broj_0

Author(s): Hamdija Demirović,Dimitrije Mitrinovic,Slobodan Blagojević,Vesna Pešić,Sonja Liht,Ljubomir Micić,Obrad Savić,Sonja Briski-Uzelac,Ivan Čolović / Language(s): Serbian

PACIFIK - Časopis za Kulturu MIra 1992/Broj_2

Author(s): Zdravko Grebo,Rada Iveković,Miško Šuvaković,Mirjana Miočinović,Bogdan Bogdanović,Svetozar Marković,Nataša Radovanović,Gordan M. Maričić / Language(s): Serbian

published in 1992 by "Centar za antiratnu akciju"

Slowenien

Author(s): Peter Vodopivec / Language(s): German Publication Year: 0

2.1. From the early days to the Reformation 2.2. Aftermath of the Reformation 2.3. Modernization and integrative processes 2.4. In the first Yugoslav state 2.5. The Second World War and the communist dictatorship 2.6. Decentralization and national antagonisms 2.7. On the way to independence

Kroatien bis 1918

Author(s): Ivo Goldstein / Language(s): German Publication Year: 0

3.1. Middle Ages and early modern times 3.2. The epoch of centralist reforms 3.3. Beginning of national integration 3.4. The Austro-Hungarian Compromise and its Consequences 3.5. The pre-war period and the First World War 3.6. Croatian historiography and politics in the 20th century

Der Zweite Weltkrieg

Author(s): Slavko Goldstein,Igor Graovac / Language(s): German Publication Year: 0

11.1. Course and actors 11.1.1. Conquest and division 11.1.2. The Independent State of Croatia (NDH) 11.1.3. The Chetniks 11.1.4. The Partisans 11.1.5. War of Liberation and Civil War 11.1.6. Allied policy 11.2. Casualties

Zwischen Aufbruch und Repression. Jugoslawien von 1945-1966

Author(s): Ludwig Steindorff / Language(s): German Publication Year: 0

12.1. Basics developed during the Second World War 12.2. The time of "administrative socialism" 12.3. The break with the Soviet Union 12.4. The expansion of self-management socialism 12.5. Yugoslavia (not) a special way to socialism

Der Titostaat in der Krise. Jugoslawien nach 1966

Author(s): Viktor Meier / Language(s): German Publication Year: 0

13.1. On the way to liberalization 13.2. The new constitution 13.3. Yugoslavia without Tito

Der Jugoslawismus und sein Ende

Author(s): Dunja Melčić / Language(s): German Publication Year: 0

14.1. Illyrianism and its limits 14.2. Yugoslavism between Greater Serbism and renewed Illyrianism 14.3. Political Yugoslavism 14.4. The First Yugoslavia: Unitarian State and Federal Counter-Movement 14.5. The Second Yugoslavia: Federal Claims and Unitarian Tendencies 14.6. Discussions about the breakup of Yugoslavia

Die Religionsgemeinschaften im ehemaligen Jugoslawien

Author(s): Rudolf Grulich,Thomas Bremer / Language(s): German Publication Year: 0

15.1.1. Up to the founding of the state in 1918 15.1.1. Beginnings of Christianity 15.1.2. Croatia and Bosnia in the Middle Ages 15.1.3. The Reformation in the South Slavs 15.1.4 The Eastern Churches 15.1.5. The Ottoman Conquest and Islam 15.1.6. The Catholic Territories in the Baroque, Enlightenment and Nineteenth Century 15.2. Nach der Gründung Jugoslawiens 1918 15.2.1. Die orthodoxen Kirchen 15.2.2. Die katholische Kirche 15.2.3. Der Islam 15.2.4. Die übrigen Religionsgemeinschaften 15.2.5. Ökumenische Beziehungen und die Kriege der neunziger Jahre

Die Entwicklung des jugoslawischen Bildungswesens 1918-1991

Author(s): Martin Mayer / Language(s): German Publication Year: 0

Zwischen Pluralismus und Denkdiktat. Die jugoslawische Medienlandschaft

Author(s): Dunja Melčić / Language(s): German Publication Year: 0

Mass Media in the Service of Ideological Consensus 20.2. The structural change of the Slovenian public 20.3. The »freedom of the press« in Serbia 20.4. The beginning of pluralism in Croatia and its dangers 20.5. Notes on other media landscapes

Dayton und die Neugestaltung Bosnien-Herzegowinas

Author(s): Mark Almond / Language(s): German Publication Year: 0

27.1. The turning point and end of the war 27.2. The Dayton Agreement 27.3. Bosnia-Herzegovina as a semi-protectorate?

Die Welt im Balkanspiegel: das Agieren der Großmächte

Author(s): Jacques Rupnik / Language(s): German Publication Year: 0

29.1. Perceptions and politics of the European states 29.2. Relaunch of classic power politics in the Balkans? 29.3. American and European Politics in Contrast

Die Folgen: Völkerrechtliche Rahmenbedingungen und die Staatengemeinschaft

Author(s): Stefan Oeter / Language(s): German Publication Year: 0

30.1. International law in upheaval 30.2. The Military Conflict: Barbarism as "Normality" 30.3. The international legal reactions. Recognition as a design tool 30.4. The Question of Military Response: Peacemaking versus “Humanitarian Intervention” 30.5. The UN criminal tribunal 30.6. The Dayton Agreement 30.7. The Kosovo intervention 30.8. Summary

Die wirtschaftliche Lage der Nachfolgestaaten Jugoslawiens vor dem Kosovokrieg

Author(s): Herbert Büschenfeld / Language(s): German Publication Year: 0

Politički i socijalno-ekonomski kontekst u Srbiji

Author(s): Staša Zajović / Language(s): Serbian Publication Year: 0

Monitoring sprovođenja NAP-a za primenu Rezolucije 1325 u Srbiji

Author(s): Gordana Subotić / Language(s): Serbian Publication Year: 0

Svet i Jugoslavenska kriza

Author(s): Ljubivoje Aćimović / Language(s): Serbian

After the dramatic changes in Eastern Europe in 1989 and, on the waves of these changes, the euphoric turn to the OSCE as a factor in building a new order in Europe, which culminated in the Paris Summit in 1990, there was a rapid decline in interest in the OSCE, especially at the beginning of 1991, and its relegation to the background by new dramatic events in the Middle East and in the Soviet Union.