Kosovo

by Buckley, William J.

• ISBN13: 9780802838896
• ISBN10: 0802838898
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-08-01
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Summary

This is the first book in any language on the Kosovo conflict to bring together opposing viewpoints from internationally known and regionally renowned Western and Balkan authors. Many of the contributors have names recognized around the world -- Slobodan Milosevic, Henry Kissinger, Jurgen Habernas, Kofi Annan, Javier Solana, Vaclav Havel, and dthers -- but distinguished contributors with less familiar names also appear together here for the first time in English.

Table of Contents

Maps
The Balkan Region	xii
The Former Yugoslavia	xiii
Kosovo	xiv
Imperial Control over the Balkans AD 284 to 1991	xv
KFOR Peacekeeping Sectors in Kosovo	xvi
Acknowledgments	xvii
Introduction	1	(26)
William Joseph Buckley
I. VOICES UNDER THE BOMBS
What Have Persons Experienced Firsthand?
A Tale from Prishtina	27	(4)
Flora Kelmendi
Belgrade Sisters under Siege: Excerpts from the War Diary of Ivanka Besevic	31	(5)
Ivanka
Olga Besevic
``My Father Was Burned Alive'': Testimonies from Kosovo Refugees	36	(7)
Sevdije Ahmeti
Diary of a Refugee Camp Doctor	43	(8)
Fokko de Vries
Blackbirds: Experiences of a Refugee Camp Worker	51	(5)
David Holdridge
Endgame in Kosovo: Ethnic Cleansing and American Amnesia	56	(15)
Mark Danner
The Milosevic Generation	71	(18)
Blaine Harden
II. VOICES FROM THE BALKAN PAST
What is the Historical and Cultural Context?
A Brief History of Serbia	89	(8)
Tim Judah
Kosovo, the Illusive State	97	(4)
Miranda Vickers
Reinventing Skenderbeg: Albanian Nationalism and NATO Neocolonialism	101	(7)
Fatos Lubonja
A History of the Kosovo Liberation Army	108	(8)
Tim Judah
What Is Eastern Christianity? The Christian East: Unity and Diversity	116	(4)
Kallistos Ware
Muslim Identity and Ethnicity in the Balkans	120	(8)
Hugh Poulton
Serbs and Muslims in the Distorted Mirror of the Yugoslav Crisis	128	(5)
Darko Tanaskovic
Vuk's Knife: Kosovo, the Serbian Golgotha, and the Radicalization of Serbian Society	133	(9)
Michael A. Sells
Kosovo's Parallel Society: The Successes and Failures of Nonviolence	142	(7)
Denisa Kostovicova
Balkan Diaspora I: The Albanian-American Community	149	(4)
Fron Nazi
Balkan Diaspora II: The History and Future of the Serbian Community in America	153	(6)
Nick Vucinich
The Balkans: From Invention to Intervention	159	(14)
Maria Todorova
III. VOICES OF TODAY'S BALKAN PEOPLE
What Do People from the Region Think?
Albanians
Portrait of a People	173	(3)
Ismail Kadare
Kosova: A Place Where the Dead Speak	176	(6)
Baton Haxhiu
Conflict and Empowerment	182	(4)
Aferdita Kelmendi
Because Kosovars Are Western, There Can Be No Homeland Without a State	186	(3)
Blerim Shala
Kosova	189	(3)
Hashim Thaqi
Serbs
Now That We Have Lost This Little World War: A Message for Slobodan Milosevic	192	(4)
Dobrica Cosic
Not Exactly New Hampshire: A Short Survey of Contemporary Serbian Politics	196	(5)
Dejan Anastasijevic
Kosovo and Us	201	(6)
Vuk Draskovic
How to Solve the Kosovo Problem	207	(3)
Zoran Djindjic
Fascism, Feminist Resistance, and the Kosovo Crisis	210	(7)
Zarana Papic
IV. VOICES OF WORLD LEADERS
What Do Authorities Say?
Fresh Cause for Hope at the Opening of the New Century	217	(4)
Javier Solana
The Effectiveness of the International Rule of Law in Maintaining International Peace and Security	221	(3)
Kofi Annan
Winning the Peace: America's Goals in Kosovo	224	(7)
Morton H. Halperin
Not Losing Sight of Justice: A Response to Halperin's Statement	231	(9)
William Joseph Buckley
Address to the Senate and the House of Commons of the Parliament of Canada	240	(6)
Vaclav Havel
Winning Peace: The Vatican on Kosovo	246	(7)
Archbishop Jean-Louis Tauran
The Strength of an Alliance	253	(3)
General Wesley K. Clark
The Strength of an Argument: A Response to General Clark's Essay	256	(10)
William Joseph Buckley
Two Roads Diverged, and We Took the One Less Traveled: Just Recourse to War and the Kosovo Intervention	266	(7)
Martin L. Cook
We Are Neither Angels Nor Devils	273	(9)
Slobodan Milosevic
The KLA Brought NATO to Kosova	282	(11)
Hashim Thaqi
V. VOICES OF POLITICAL COMMENTATORS
How Is the Intervention Debated?
Kosovo and the Vicissitudes of American Foreign Policy	293	(13)
Henry A. Kissinger
Bestiality and Humanity: A War on the Border between Law and Morality	306	(11)
Jurgen Habermas
Get Serious about Kosovo	317	(16)
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Kosovo	333	(3)
Michael Walzer
Debating Kosovo: An Exchange	336	(8)
Robert Skidelsky
Michael Ignatieff
Why the Balkans Demand Amorality	344	(5)
Robert D. Kaplan
Give War a Chance	349	(7)
Edward N. Luttwak
Force and Humanitarian Intervention: The Case of Kosovo	356	(7)
David Little
VI. ETHICAL AND RELIGIOUS VOICES
How is the Crisis Ethically and Religiously Evaluated?
Kosovo and the Just-War Tradition	363	(5)
Jean Bethke Elshtain
The Ethno-Religious Challenge to Global Order	368	(3)
Mark Juergensmeyer
The Former Yugoslavia: A Warning Example for World Peace, a Challenge for World Churches	371	(7)
Hans Kung
Kosovo Crisis Contexts: Nationalism, Milosevic, and the Serbian Orthodox Church	378	(6)
Stanley Samuel Harakas
Legitimation, Justification, and the Politics of Rescue	384	(15)
Richard B. Miller
Kosovo: A War of Values and the Values of War	399	(7)
J. Bryan Hehir
A Pacifist Response to Ethnic Cleansing	406	(3)
James W. Douglass
On Giving the Devil the Benefit of Law in Kosovo	409	(10)
Nigel Biggar
Islamist Response to the War in Kosovo: Materials for an Ironic Narrative	419	(6)
John Kelsay
Kosovo: The Ethics of Heaven, Earth, and Hell	425	(10)
Gabriel Fackre
VII. VOICES FOR THE FUTURE
What Issues Must Be Faced?
The Protectorate	435	(3)
Timothy Garton Ash
``Peacekeeping'' in Kosovo: Mission Impossible?	438	(3)
Julie Mertus
Montenegro Pushes for Statehood	441	(3)
Janusz Bugajski
Some Reflections beneath the Bombs in Belgrade	444	(4)
Svetozar Stojanovic
Should Kosovo-Metohia Remain a Part of Serbia/Yugoslavia? A Plea for a Just Solution	448	(6)
Slobodan Samardzic
Why Kosova Should Be Independent	454	(4)
Shkelzen Maliqi
Religious Dynamics in Kosovo and the Potential for Cooperation	458	(5)
William F. Vendley
James L. Cairns
Kosova and the Transition of the Century	463	(2)
Veton Surroi
Why Try?	465	(36)
Martha Minow
Appendices
Balkan Spellings and Pronunciations	469	(4)
Albania	473	(3)
Serbia and Montenegro	476	(7)
On-line Resources for Further Inquiry	483	(18)
Contributors	501	(9)
Permissions	510	(2)
Index	512