Kosovo: War, Peace and Intervention in a Nutshell

Enika Abazi (1)

1 Paris Peace Research Institute

The Kosovo conflict is one of those outspoken events due not only to the dimension of the case itself but mostly to the challenges it brought to the revision of the main principles, structures and institutions established during the Cold War. Meanwhile, the particularity of such conflict stems from its idiosyncratic nature, and the difficulties involved in finding common points with other similar cases . Although some common features can be defined, a solution remains individualistic. The paper aims to comment on war and peace dimensions of the Kosovo case as such, it is not looking to provide straight an answer to the matrix of dilemmas !hat are generated in the domain of international relations from !he case. The paper is not aimed to reveal the large-extended problematic, enumerate al! circumstances and effecting factors relevant to the case, neither detail ail means and strategies that can be used to resolve the cases. These limitations are done with the intention of avoiding bulky, whilst preserving cohesion and consistency within the limits of a paper.

Mots clés: Conditionality; Post-Cold War; Conflict; Conflict Resolution; War and Peace; Institution building

Mots clés: Intervention humanitaire

Domaines: Science politique; Histoire

Enika Abazi. Kosovo: War, Peace and Intervention in a Nutshell. Turkish Review of Balkan Studies, 2001, 6. ⟨halshs-01502313⟩