Kvazidržavnost kao instrument hegemonije: slučaj Kosovo
Quasi-statehood as an Instrument of Hegemony: The Case of Kosovo

Summary/Abstract: This paper analyzes the roots of the Kosovo issue, starting with the Berlin Congress (1878), and it links the phenomenon of quasi-stetehood with the spread of global management. In the situation when the mineral resources competition is becoming tense, it is quite logical that there is a tendency to start a regime of foreign rule in Kosovo. Major Western countries did not find it convenient to leave Kosovo under Belgrade’s jurisdiction along with the acceptance of Serbia in “Great Europe”. They instead decided to “internationalize” Serbian resources. After the disintegration of the bipolar world, this option for gaining access to raw materials became very popular among hegemons. In that sense Kosovo is not a “unique case”, but just one of clear examples of creating artificial territorial and political subjects whose statehood is “problematic.”

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