Etape în procesul de obţinere a independenţei Kosovo şi impactul acesteia asupra comunităţii internaţionale
Phases in the Process of Kosovo’s Independence and its Impact on the Contemporary International Community

Summary/Abstract: The paper intends on reviewing key aspects of the ethnic conflict between Serbs and Albanians and the reactions and consequences that have derived from the unilateral declaration of independence of Kosovo. Thus, the author intends on revisiting some key historical moments within the ethnic conflict while focusing towards the end of the article on some key reactions that the international community has had regarding this issue. Of course, such an endeavor is accompanied by the need of reassessing the way in which we regard international law and the effects that it can or cannot produce when needed. Although complicated and difficult to realize within such a short article, the author also tries to address the problem of weather Kosovo can be viewed as a precedent or rather an exception within the international arena. In trying to address this issue, the author will realize a short comparison of the separatist issues of Kosovo and the separatist issues of Abhazia and South Osetia, concluding that because of the special international context in which the independence was pronounced in Kosovo, and due to the special Historical consequences that the conflict arose in, viewing Kosovo as a precedent is only a political act meant to alter reality trough public discourses for the materialization of a national agenda.

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