Kosovo: The Loss by Complacency: The Relic and Reminder of Ottomanism in the Balkans

The fact that Kosovo was torn away from Serbia as a result of the Bosnia War of the 1990s was not dictated from above or was inevitable. It was a Loss by Complacency.

Serbia had allowed this situation to develop over the years by letting a Muslim majority grow in place. It then was able to take over the most important district in Serbian history.

International interference in this developing conflict helped decide its fate, but only because Serbia did not continually demonstrate that it cared...