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Postscript,
April 25, 2013
Kosovo and Serbia Make a Deal
Nikolas K. Gvosdev

After months of negotiations, Kosovo and Serbia have finally agreed to normalize relations. The deal pushes some questions aside and requires both parties to accept certain fictions. Nevertheless, it could as a template for melting the region's other frozen conflicts.
Snapshot,
April 26, 2010
Unfreezing Kosovo
Nikolas K. Gvosdev

Two years after it declared independence, Kosovo has not progressed as many of its backers -- most especially the United States -- once hoped. To make Kosovo politically and economically viable, Washington should encourage negotiations open to the idea of territorial adjustment.
Response, Jan/Feb 2006
Kosovo and Its DiscontentsPremium Article available to subscribers and site license holders.
Nikolas K. Gvosdev
Comment, Nov/Dec 2005
Independence for KosovoPremium Article available to subscribers and site license holders.
Charles A. Kupchan

Given the atrocities they have suffered in the past and the autonomy they are enjoying now, Kosovo's Albanians will never accept continued Serbian sovereignty. The time has come to give them what they want -- independence.
Essay, Jan/Feb 2005
Back to the BalkansPremium Article available to subscribers and site license holders.
Edward P. Joseph

Since Slobodan Milosevic was sent to The Hague two years ago, the former Yugoslavia has dropped off the international radar. But the Balkans are far from secure: corruption runs rampant, economies are flat, and ethnic hatred continues to simmer. Worst of all, Kosovo remains a flashpoint that could re-ignite the region.
Review Essay, Jul/Aug 2001
Compromised Command Premium Article available to subscribers and site license holders.
Richard K. Betts

In Waging Modern War, General Wesley Clark describes how NATO bested Serbia -- just barely -- in the organization's first-ever shooting war. With confused priorities, a reluctant military, and overweening lawyers, the alliance was scarcely up to the task.
Essay, Jan/Feb 2001
A Second Chance in the BalkansPremium Article available to subscribers and site license holders.
Carl Bildt

Recent political transitions in Belgrade and Zagreb have created a historic chance to make lasting peace in the Balkans. Torn by ethnic strife for a century and a half, the region must now choose between disintegration into ever-smaller ethnic states and integration into the European Union. The EU must actively facilitate the latter, or the Balkans could suffer another round of bloody war.
Review Essay, May/Jun 2000
Sorting Out the Balkans: Three New Looks at a Trouble RegionPremium Article available to subscribers and site license holders.
Ivo Banac

Two new books on Kosovo and a massive history of the Balkans try to make sense of a troubled region -- with wildly mixed results.
Essay, Nov/Dec 1999
A European "New Deal" for the BalkansPremium Article available to subscribers and site license holders.
Benn Steil and Susan L. Woodward

Peace in the Balkans depends on economic stability and prosperity for all. To overcome the legacies of failed economic reforms and ethnic strife, southeastern Europe needs nothing short of a European "New Deal." Sound money and free trade can take root in the Balkans only if the EU expands the euro and its trade arrangements to the region promptly, with no strings attached. But the EU's current approach, which attaches conditions to membership in its elite clubs, falls far short.
Essay, Nov/Dec 1999
NATO's Success in KosovoPremium Article available to subscribers and site license holders.
Javier Solana

The NATO war in Kosovo did not come out of the blue. The alliance fought only after Belgrade turned a deaf ear to diplomacy, and NATO knew the risks it was running. But doing nothing would have been worse; assenting to Slobodan Milosevic's mass killings would have dangerously undermined the credibility of Western institutions.
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