PОSITION OF LATIN AMERICA TOWARDS KOSOVO
PОSITION OF LATIN AMERICA TOWARDS KOSOVO

Author(s): Lidija Kos-Stanišić, Đana Luša
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, International Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Published by: Институт за међународну политику и привреду
Keywords: humanitarian intervention; self-determination; recognition; Kosovo; Latin America
Summary/Abstract: The paper problematizes relation between Latin American states’ position on NATO intervention in Yugoslavia and the recognition of Kosovo’s independence. It analyses the position of five major regional players: Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Venezuela and Bolivia, as well as the particularity of Suriname, which recognized Kosovo and then overturned the recognition a year later. Particularly the concept of humanitarian intervention and the right of self-determination is problematized in relation to different policies of Latin American states and their bilateral relations with the United States.

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