Kosovo and Serbia: Contested Options and Shared Consequences

by Leandrit I. Mehmeti (Editor), Branislav Radeljic (Editor)

Overview

Azan on the Moon is an in-depth anthropological study of people's lives along the Pamir Highway in eastern Tajikistan. Constructed in the 1930s in rugged high-altitude terrain, the road fundamentally altered the material and social fabric of this former Soviet outpost on the border with Afghanistan and China. The highway initially brought sentiments of disconnection and hardship, followed by Soviet modernization and development, and ultimately a sense of distinction from bordering countries and urban centers that continues to this day. Based on extensive fieldwork and through an analysis of construction, mobility, technology, media, development, Islam, and the state, Till Mostowlansky shows how ideas of modernity are both challenged and reinforced in contemporary Tajikistan. In the wake of China's rise in Central Asia, people along the Pamir Highway strive to reconcile a modern future with a modern past. Weaving together the road, a population, and a region, Azan on the Moon presents a rich ethnography of global connections

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780822944690
Publisher:	University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date:	12/12/2016
Series:	Russian and East European Studies , #233
Edition description:	1
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Leandrit I. Mehmeti is a lecturer at the University of South Australia.
Branislav Radeljic is an associate professor of international politics at the University of East London.

Table of Contents

Foreword Andrea Lorenzo Capussela ix

Acknowledgments xvii

Acronyms xix

List of Municipalities xxiii

Introduction Leandrit I. Mehmeti Branislav Radeljic 3

1 Kosovo: A Case Study in the Unintended Consequences of Communist Nationality Policy, 1968-1986 Veljko Vujacic 14

2 Settling The Self-Determination Dispute In Kosovo Arben Qirezi 37

3 Kosovo in the Official Rhetoric of the European Union and Russia Branislav Radeljic 63

4 Governance Challenges to Interethnic Relations in Kosovo Ilire Agimi 85

5 Serbian Political Parties and the Kosovo Question Dušan Spasojevic 106

6 The Capacity and Performance of the Eulex Mission in Kosovo Mina Zirojevic 130

7 The Role of Minorities in the Serbo-Albanian Political Quagmire Gent Cakaj Gëzim Krasniqi 149

8 Minority Returns to Kosovo: Migration Policies. Practices, and Theory Tanja Pavlov 168

9 Economic Cooperation as a Way Toward Reconciliation and Eu Integration for Kosovo and Serbia Gazmend Qorraj 196

10 Perspective of the Normalization of Relations Between Kosovo and Serbia Leandrit I. Mchmeti 216

Notes 243

Contributors 305

Index 307

Editorial Reviews

This volume covers multiple aspects of the Kosovo conflict in extraordinarily thorough ways. These include historical interpretations of the origins of the ethnonationalist conflict, the internationalization of the Kosovo problem, the impact of international agencies in post-1999 Kosovo, the Kosovo question in post-2001 Serbian politics, questions of minority rights, and the prospects of economic cooperation between Kosovo and Serbia in regional context.

Virginia Tech Besnik Pula

This volume covers multiple aspects of the Kosovo conflict in extraordinarily thorough ways. These include historical interpretations of the origins of the ethnonationalist conflict, the internationalization of the Kosovo problem, the impact of international agencies in post-1999 Kosovo, the Kosovo question in post-2001 Serbian politics, questions of minority rights, and the prospects of economic cooperation between Kosovo and Serbia in regional context.”
—Besnik Pula, Virginia Tech University

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