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WHAT KOSOVO NEEDS NOW IS NOT ONLY SERBIAN
RECOGNITION
Daniel Serwer
February 15, 2021
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Kosovo’s early elections
have produced, as expected, a clear victory for Vetevendosje (VV
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commanding lead of something over 50 seats
in the
120-seata Kosovo Assembly. This is Albin Kurti’s moment. The
still young, articulate VV leader had a couple of months in the
Prime Minister’s chair last year. The Trump Administration
didn’t like his insistence on reciprocity with Serbia or his
skepticism about Trump’s bizarre choice of an American envoy.
Washington took advantage of a squabble within his coalition to
bring him down. That isn’t likely this time around, not only
because of VV’s strong showing at
the polls but also because Trump is gone. The Biden
Administration will at least try to be respectful...
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KOSOVO’S WORRIES
Daniel Serwer
July 12, 2020
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Kosovar friend writes: I believe this is where all the problems
started: by the narrative that Kosovo is
about to die soon as it does not have a final deal with Serbia!
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narrative, claiming that we depend on
Serbia’s willingness
to recognize us.
They want
us to devote all our energy to a deal. Yes, dealing with Serbia is
important, but not at any cost. The technical dialogue in Brussels
had a perverse effect: it stopped recognition of Kosovo, as some in
the international community felt they should wait for the
results. The dialogue also eliminated the authentic Kosovo Serb
parties who accept the Kosovo state. That was done because Serbian
President Vucic in the dialogue made a
lot of promises and accepted
a lot of...
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KOSOVO NEEDS TO
HEDGE
Daniel Serwer
June 25, 2020
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Kosovo prides itself on being the most pro-
American country on
earth. I don’t really know if it is true. Pew does not include
Kosovo in its polling. There Vietnam holds the top position. But
it is only 84% favorable to the US. I wouldn’t be surprised if
Kosovo could equal or beat that. There are...
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KOSOVO IS IN TROUBLE
Daniel Serwer
June 24, 2020
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The
Kosovo Specialist Chambers (KSC) and Specialist Prosecutor’s
Office (SPO) charged with ensuring accountability for war crimes
and crimes against humanity in the aftermath of the 1999
NATO/Yugoslavia war announced today that the prosecutor on April
24 charged President Thaci and former...
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ILL-FATED
Daniel Serwer
June 3, 2020
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As parliament approved a new Kosovo government
today, here are a few thoughts on its fate. It will
be led by the
LDK and command a narrow
majority based on several minority parties
as well as several smaller parties that have been in the
opposition during the...
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KOSOVO’S DECISIVE
SUMMER
Daniel Serwer
May 19, 2020
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These were my remarks to a Columbia University
panel on “The Future of Kosovo” held via Zoom today. Let me
start by saying how much I appreciate David Phillips having put
this panel together. It isn’t easy to wrangle such illustrious
participants...
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WHAT THEY DON’T SAY
COUNTS
Daniel Serwer
March 27, 2020
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The State Department
issued this Joint Statement
of Special Presidential Envoy Richard Grenell,
Ambassador Philip
Kosnett, and Special Representative for the
Western Balkans Matthew Palmer on Kosovo yesterday: The United
States stands...
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ALBIN’S FALL COULD
BE HASHIM’S
Daniel Serwer
March 26, 2020
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Kosovo Prime Minister Kurti lost a vote of confidence yesterday,
abandoned by his main LDK coalition partner. He remains in
office as caretaker, though it is unclear to me whether he’ll
get another crack at forming a government.
More likely he’ll be forced to cede to...
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DEAR HASHIM,
Daniel Serwer
March 17, 2020
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Kosovo President Thaci responded to Shaun
Byrnes’ post on
peacefare.net from Saturday with these tweets:
Hashim
Thaçi@HashimThaciRKS· Mar 13 Disappointed to see friends
of Kosovo & mine @DanielSerwer & Byrnes being deceived by fake
news. There is...
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A BAD DEAL
Daniel Serwer
March 13, 2020
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Shaun Byrnes, a retired US diplomat who served as chief of the
U.S. Diplomatic Observer Mission in
Kosovo in 1998-99, writes: Kosovo President Thaçi
and Serbian President
Vučić have prepared a draft comprehensive agreement to end the
conflict that has defined...
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DEAR ALBIN,
Daniel Serwer
February 3, 2020
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First and foremost: congratulations on your election win and
your successful efforts to form a coalition! While I still
haven’t seen your government program, I would like to offer some thoughts on the problems you face and
how to deal with them. You...
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KOSOVA’S CRUCIAL
CROSSROADS
Janusz Bugajski
16 October 2019
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Kosova has reached an important crossroads in its
development as an independent state. A major opposition party
surprisingly won the
general elections on October 6 and pledged to conduct major
house cleaning to...
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A VOTE FOR CHANGE
Daniel Serwer
October 6, 2019
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Kosovo voted for a new parliament today. The results are
striking: the two parties that formed most of the majority in
the last parliament came in third
and fourth. Two opposition
parties came in first and second. The PDK
(Democratic...
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20 YEARS ON
Daniel Serwer
June 12, 2019
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I
spoke today at a conference in Pristina commenmorating the 20th
anniversary of the NATO deployment in Kosovo. These were my
speaking notes, but time restriction meant I started around
point 11. I underlined in addition that...
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COMPLETING
SOVEREIGNTY
Daniel Serwer
February 15, 2018
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Kosovo is ten years independent Saturday. It has
a lot to be proud of: a functional, more or less democratic state
built in
less than twenty years, despite determined opposition from
Serbia and Russia. Most people in Kosovo live the normal lives
they were...
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SECURITIZING KOSOVO
THROUGH RADICALISM
Erdoan A. Shipoli
May 31, 2016, HuffPost
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There is an unexpected movement to bring Kosovo into the
radicalism
discussion in the American media. Recently, there
have been many articles, news, and reports on the increase of
radical fractions in
Kosovo. One of the most controversial...
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ONE THING NOT TO
WORRY ABOUT
Daniel Serwer
May 23, 2016
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Yesterday’s front-page New York Times piece on radicalization in
Kosovo is every diplomat’s nightmare:
a well-written, prominent
story with solid facts that contradict what his or her
government wants the Americans to believe. But there is another
two-thirds
of the story...
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HOW KOSOVO WAS
TURNED INTO FERTILE
GROUND
FOR ISIS
By Carlotta Gall
May 21, 2016, The NYT
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Every Friday, just yards
from a statue of Bill Clinton with arm
aloft in a cheery wave, hundreds of young bearded men make a
show of
kneeling to pray on the
sidewalk outside an improvised mosque in a former furniture...
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IT ALL DEPENDS
Daniel Serwer
August 26, 2015
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People were asking me what I think almost before the ink was dry
on the five pages agreed yesterday between Belgrade and Pristina
on the general principles/main elements
of the Association/
Community of Serb majority municipalities in Kosovo.
The answer
is: it all
depends. It...
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THE
ROAD IS LONG BUT
THE DESTINATION IS IN
SIGHT
by Daniel Serwer
Professor of Conflict
Management, Johns
Hopkins School
of
Advanced International
Studies
April 24, 2013
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Mr. Chairman, thank you for this opportunity to testify on the
pathway to peace for Kosovo and Serbia, which has been a long
and
difficult one. With your
permission...
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FANTASYLAND
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Anyone who thought, as The Economist and others have reported,
that Serbia was softening its position on Kosovo and would yield
to sweet reason has to be disappointed today. The Belgrade
platform for negotiations on Kosovo represents a giant step...
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Belgrade - Pristina
ALL AGREED
CONCLUSIONS
(2011-2012)
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1.
Residents of each party should be able to travel freely within
or through the territory of the other; 2. Each party will apply,
as soon as operationally feasible, an ID card system for cross
border/boundary travel of residents from the other party; 3.
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SERB COMMUNITY IN KOSOVO
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IIn
the period January – June 2012 a team of the Helsinki Committee
for Human Rights in Serbia conducted a research on initial
effects of the Ahtisaari plan on the situation of the Serb
community in Kosovo. In the course of oneday...
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