"This book provides a detailed historical and political analysis of the role and effectiveness of international administration in state-building. It analyses how the international administrations in ...Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo have attempted to create sustainable political institutions and to what extent they have been successful in doing so"--
This book offers a thorough appraisal of Operation Allied Force, NATO's 78-day air war to compel the president of Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milosevic, to end his campaign of ethnic cleansing in Kosovo. ...The author sheds light both on the operation's strengths and on its most salient weaknesses. He outlines the key highlights of the air war and examines the various factors that interacted to induce Milosevic to capitulate when he did. He then explores air power's most critical accomplishments in Operation Allied Force as well as the problems that hindered the operation both in its planning and in its execution. Finally, he assesses Operation Allied Force from a political and strategic perspective, calling attention to those issues that are likely to have the greatest bearing on future military policymaking. The book concludes that the air war, although by no means the only factor responsible for the allies' victory, certainly set the stage for Milosevic's surrender by making it clear that he had little to gain by holding out. It concludes that in the end, Operation Allied Force's most noteworthy distinction may lie in the fact that the allies prevailed despite the myriad impediments they faced.
Recent bombing campaigns and peacekeeping efforts have achieved a fragile and uncertain peace in Kosovo. However, NATO will need help from both the European Union and the United Nations to create and ...maintain a lasting peace in the region. An expert in the affairs of the troubled region, Rezun traveled to the crisis zone to interview Kosovar refugees and foreign statesmen. He offers a sharp critique of the conflict, taking NATO and the entire Western Alliance to task and emphasizing the villainous behavior of the Milosevic regime. One cannot consider what happened in Kosovo to be an isolated affair, Rezun contends.Based on the widest possible range of sources, including documentation in nearly every European language, this study will appeal to experts and laymen alike. Rezun refuses to take sides. In addition to his criticisms of foreign intervention, exaggerated statistics, and reverse ethnic cleansing, he is merciless in his condemnation of the Serbs, in particular the corrupt influence of Milosevic and the late Arkan. In writing laced with irony, wit, and satire, he reveals the foibles of limited war and the errors committed by all parties. Yet his primary focus remains on the sufferings of the men, women, and children who filled the refugee camps and the devastated villages to which they have returned.
In spite of the growing literature on discourse analysis, the relationship of discourse to violent/non-violent outcomes of conflict is an under-researched area. This book combines theories on ethnic ...conflict, identity construction and discourse analysis with a comprehensive and inclusive survey of the countries of the former Yugoslavia. It presents an understanding of the interrelationship between 'words' and 'deeds' grounded through an extensively close analysis of film, television and newspapers samples taken from the period. This combination of ground-breaking applications of theory with detailed empirical case studies will make Media Discourse and the Yugoslav Conflicts of key interest to scholars across a range of social sciences including sociology, discourse analysis, media, conflict and peace studies as well as those concerned with ethnopolitical conflict.
Hyperactivity is a mental health disorder that causes drastic fluctuation level of concentration and hyperactivity (Snyder, 2006). People with hyperactivity have difficulty concentrating, sitting ...position, in dedicating attention, stay organized, following instructions, memorizing the details and management of impulsiveness (Smith, 2016). Participants were from primary school students in Kosovo, N=200 Children age 9-11 and N=200 parents, they completed the following instruments, PSDQ questionnaire; (Robinson, Mandleco, Olsen, & Hart, 2001) this instruments was for measuring parenting styles, and Children behavioral checklist version for parents (Achenbach and Rescorla, 2007). The results shown that hyperactivity of children was positively correlated with authoritarian and tolerant parenting styles. In the survey results show that 74.0% of children participate in extra-curricular activities, and 26.0% did not participate in extra-curricular activities.Regression analysis explain 32% of variance for hyperactivity factor as a depended variable predicted by Gender and authoritarian parenting style. Also male has higher mean of hyperactivity than female and results was significantly different with p=.030* Conclusion is that parents who set strict rules authoritarian parents and tolerant parents can have a hyperactive children. Usually there is no need for special treatment for parents, already they have to be empathic with their children, collaboration with peers, relatives and parent-child cooperation which will give positive effect.
This work presents a textural and chemical study of gersdorffite from numerous small occurrences of hydrothermal Pb-Zn + (Ni-As-Sb) mineralization from Trepça Mineral Belt (broad area of Stan Terg ...and Kizhnica-Hajvalia-Badovc ore field) hosted in hydrothermally altered serpentinites (listvenites). Mineral associations, textural relations and substitutional trends of gersdorffite recognized in Kizhnica, Mazhiq, Melenica, Vllahia and Selac are discussed based on microscopy and microprobe studies. The two types of paragenetic sequence with nickel mineralization are distinguished in studied localities: Ni-Fe-Co sulfides → Ni sulfarsenides and sulfantimonides (in Kizhnica-Badovc and Melenica) and Ni sulfarsenides → Ni-Fe arsenide and diarsenide → ± Ni sulfides (Vllahia and Selac). Various substitution trends in studied GUS are detected: Fe+Co/Ni (all localities, except Selac); As/Sb - gersdorffite-ullmannite series (Kizhnica, Mazhiq, Vllahia VLX) and As+Sb/S (Selac and Vllahia VL4). Based on As/S ratio, two different hydrothermal fluids were distinguished: narrow range and low As/S values (Kizhnica, Mazhiq, Melenica, Vllahia VLX), which suggest decreased As activity, mixing in the proximity of deposition site (Kizhnica, Mazhiq), broad range and high As/S values: increased As activity and disequilibrium crystallization (Selac, Vllahia VL4).
Mahmut Bakali (1936 - 2006) was the president of the Presidency of the Provincial Committee of the Union of Communists of Kosovo from 1971 to 1981. He was a member of the so-called Đakovica group - ...Albanian communists from the vicinity of Đakovica who occupied key positions in the province of Kosovo during the entire post-war period. Bakali came to power at the time of the expansion of Kosovo's autonomy. During his tenure, Kosovo functioned as a republic in all but name. Albanian nationalism grew, the foundations of the Albanian separatist movement were laid, the planned albanianization of the province took place, and the mass emigration of Serbs intensified. After his dismissal in 1981, Bakali spent almost two decades outside official politics but retained his reputation and influence among Albanians. He was a member of the Albanian delegation during the negotiations in Rambouillet in 1998, a deputy in the Assembly of Kosovo after the war in 1999, and an adviser to the Prime Minister of Kosovo, Agim Ceku. He was also a witness at the trial of Slobodan Milosevic.
War Over Kosovo Andrew Bacevich, Eliot Cohen
2001., 20020102, 2002, 2005-01-22
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More than any other episode since the end of the Cold War, the conflict in Kosovo revealed the distinctive attributes of a new American "way of war." In so doing, Kosovo also brought into sharp focus ...the military, political, and moral dilemmas confronting a liberal democracy intent on wielding preeminent power on a global scale. What are the moral implications posed by waging high-tech warfare for humanitarian purposes? Does the precedent set by intervention of this type point toward peace and stability or toward more war? How well suited are the United States military and American society as a whole to the security challenges of the age of globalization? According to Bacevich and Cohen, gauging the "success" achieved in Kosovo yields important answers to these and related questions. The volume includes a well-crafted historical overview of the war and six essays that place it in a broader context. The contributors explore the conflict's relationship to U.S. grand strategy, the Revolution in Military Affairs, and American civil-military relations, among other topics.
Territorial ownership claims are central to many interethnic conflicts and can constitute an obstacle to conflict resolution and reconciliation. However, people in conflict areas might also have a ...perception that the territory simultaneously belongs to one’s ingroup and the rival outgroup. We expected such perceptions of shared ownership to be related to higher reconciliation intentions. We examined this expectation in relation to the territory of Kosovo among random national samples of Albanians and Serbs from Kosovo, and Serbs from Serbia (Study 1, total N = 995). In general, participants perceived low levels of shared ownership, however, shared ownership perceptions were positively related to reconciliation intentions in Kosovo. In Study 2 (total N = 375), we experimentally manipulated shared ownership (vs. ingroup ownership) and found that shared ownership elicited stronger reconciliation intentions. It is concluded that fostering a sense of shared ownership can be important for improving intergroup relations in post‐conflict settings.
When traditional marketing practices are unsuitable for small and medium enterprises, entrepreneurs have to unlearn traditional principles and replace them with new innovative thoughts and actions, ...such as entrepreneurial marketing (EM). This paper examines the impact of EM dimensions on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Kosovo. Findings reveal that respondents tend to be highly opportunity focused and understand the importance of resource leveraging. While value creation is seen as a very important entrepreneurial marketing dimension, respondents are reserved with respect to taking risks; furthermore, they do not tend to be proactive, innovative nor customer oriented. Finally, the limitations of the study and the suggestions for future research are provided.
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