Kosovo News 22.4.2008. Miodrag Jovanovic, Is Kosmet a ‘Unique Case’? Miodrag Jovanovic, Is Kosmet a Unique Case (PDF) http://www.kosovo-law.org/mjovanovic.pdf Miodrag Jovanovic is Professor of Introduction to Law, University of Belgrade Faculty of Law. 21.4.2008, Robert Skidelsky, The Kosovo Effect Robert Skidelsky, The Kosovo Effect http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/robert_skidelsky/2008/04/the_kosovo_effect.html Robert Skidelsky is Professor of Political Economy, Warwick University. http://www.skidelskyr.com http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/faculty/skidelsky 20.4.2008, FROM THE ARCHIVES: Heinz Loquai, Kosovo: A Missed Opportunity for the Peaceful Solution of the Conflict Heinz Loquai, Kosovo - A Missed Opportunity for the Peaceful Solution of the Conflict (OSCE Yearbook 1999, PDF) http://www.core-hamburg.de/documents/yearbook/english/99/Loquai.pdf Heinz Loquai is retired Brigadier General of the German Army and a member of the OSCE Kosovo Verification Mission. 18.4.2008, CHOMSKY & COSIC: TOO LATE FOR PARTITION Correspondence between Dobrica Cosic & Noam Chomsky (in Serbian) http://www.novosti.co.yu/code/navigate.php?Id=1&status=jedna&vest=119863&datum= 2008-04-18 Noam Chomsky is professor of linguistics, Massachusets Institute of Technology, and was voted as the leading public intellectual in the 2005. Global Intellectuals Poll published by the Prospect magazine. http://www.chomsky.info http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/people/faculty/chomsky/index.html Dobrica Cosic is Serbian writer and former President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1992-1993). 10.4.2008, CONFERENCE ON KOSOVO IN ROME Kosovo: la dichiarazione di indipendenza che ha diviso il mondo. E adesso? Conference organized by Fondazione Willy Brandt in Rome, April 10th. http://www.fondazionewillybrandt.it/download/invito.pdf (programme of the conference, in Italian, PDF) http://www.radioradicale.it/scheda/251524/kosovo-la-dichiarazione-di- indipendenza-che-ha-diviso-il-mondo-e-adesso (audio record of the conference, MP3) http://www.rinascitabalcanica.com/?read=8032 (an article about the conference, in Italian) Speakers: Mario Spadari, Fondazione Willy Brandt, director Lucio Caracciolo, editor of the Limes magazine Gianni de Michelis, European MP Oliver Ivanovic, Serbian politican from Kosovo Miodrag Lekic, LUISS, Roma Fabio Mini, KFOR Alber Rakipi, Albanian Institute for International Studies Umberto Ranieri, Italian MP Azem Vllasi, Albanian politician from Kosovo Ivo Viskovic, Faculty of Political Sciences, Belgrade Biljana Vankovska, Faculty of Philosophy, Skopje Emanuela Del Re, Universita la Sapienza, Roma Interview with Fabio Mini (in Serbian) http://www.novosti.co.yu/code/navigate.php?Id=1&status=jedna&vest=119664 &datum=2008-04-14 Interview with Gianni de Michelis (in Serbian) http://www.novosti.co.yu/code/navigate.php?Id=1&status=jedna&vest=119479 &search=MIKELIS&datum=2008-04-17 Promotion of the Limes magazine issue dedicated to the Kosovo and Metohija problem http://www.conferencealerts.com/seeconf.mv?q=ca1xhh0x 1.4.2008, JIRI DIENSTBIER ON KOSOVO AND REPUBLIC OF SRPSKA Jiri Dienstbier, Republic of Srpska Could Follow the Kosovo Example (Nezavisne novine, in Serbian) http://www.nezavisne.com/vijesti.php?meni=2&vijest=21692 Jiri Dienstbier is former Czechoslovakian Minister for Foreign Affairs (1989-1992) and former Special Rapporteur of the UN Human Rights Commission for Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia (1998-2001). Dienstbier reports to the UN Human Rights Commission http://unbisnet.un.org:8080/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1R07942270X9N.26539&profile=bibga&uri =link=3100010~!203944~!3100001~!3100040&aspect=alpha&menu=search&ri=1&source=~ !horizon&term=UN.+Commission+on+Human+Rights.+Special+Rapporteur+on+the+Situation+of +Human+Rights+in+Bosnia+and+Herzegovina%2C+the+Republic+of+Croatia+and+the+Federal +Republic+of+Yugoslavia&index=#focus 14.4.2008, Marcelo G. Kohen, Le Kosovo: Un test pour la communauté internationale Le Kosovo: Un test pour la communauté internationale (PDF, in French) http://www.kosovo-law.org/kohen.pdf A selection of articles on Kosovo problem by Marcelo G. Kohen could be found on http://hei.unige.ch/~kohen/articles_f.htm. Articles are in French, German and Serbian. Some of them require subscription. Marcelo G. Kohen is the Professor of International Law, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva. He is the editor of the Secession: International Law Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 2006.), the best study on the subject currently available. http://hei.unige.ch/%7Ekohen/home_e.htm http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521849284 10.4.2008. KOSOVO PRECEDENT RAISES FEARS WORLDWIDE Shaun Walker, The Kosovo Precedent (Prospect Magazine) http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=10128 Peter Brookes, Flashpoint: Separation Anxiety - Kosovo's split with Serbia fuels regional tensions (The Conservative Voice) http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/31620.html Peter Brookes is senior fellow at Heritage Foundation. http://www.heritage.org/about/staff/peterbrookes.cfm 10.4.2008, TWO IISS ANALYSIS The April issue of the Strategic Comments, the magazine published by the International Institute for Startegic Studies, has an article about the Kosovo independence – Kosovo Independence: Awaiting Serbia’s Verdict (subscription needed). http://www.iiss.org/publications/strategic-comments/latest-issue/ A Reuters interview with Jonathan Eyal & Dana Allin: Separatist Fears Stroke Opposition to Move, http://uk.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUKL1815994220080218 Jonathan Eyal is director of International Security Studies, Royal United Service Institute. http://www.rusi.org/about/staff/ref:A407FF663E3043/ Dana Allin is senior fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. http://www.iiss.org/staffexpertise/list-experts-by-name/dr-dana-allin 7.4.2008, INDEPENDENCE: THE CANADIAN PERSPECTIVE A selection of opinions from Canadian intellectuals regarding the Canadian recognition of Kosovo and its implications in Canada. Rafe Mair - Kosovo and Quebec (The Tyee) http://thetyee.ca/Views/2008/04/07/KosovoQuebec/ Rafe Mair is Canadian political commentator. http://www.rafeonline.com/ Lewis Mackenzie, War Crimes and the Recognition of Kosovo: Observations on the current political leadership in Kosovo (GlobalResearch.ca) http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8533 Lewis Mackenzie is a retired Canadian general. He served in several international peacekeeping missions, including UNPROFOR. James Bisett, No to Kosovo "Independence": Canada should not have recognized the independence of Kosovo (GlobalResearch.ca) http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8532 James Bissett was Canadia's ambassador to Yugoslavia from 1990 untill 1992. http://www.deltax.net/bissett/ A selection of articles criticizing Kosovo's independence can be found at the website of the Center for Research on Globalization, run by Michel Chossudovsky. http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=newsHighlights&newsId=19 7.4.2008, EUROPEAN ATTITUDES A selection of articles on different positions towards Kosovo independence in European countries, as well as the implications of Kosovo independence all over Europe. Nicholas Kulish, Kosovo Heartens a Hungarian Enclave in Romania (International Herlad Tribune) http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/04/07/europe/07hungarians.php http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/04/03/europe/journal.php Srdjan Prtina, Kosovo: Illogical Attitude of European Countries (Euromonitor) http://euromonitor-international.eu/index-an.php?subaction=showfull&id =1205949235&archive=&start_from=&ucat=35,36,41& Srdjan Prtina is professor of international relations, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno. http://www.muni.cz/people/65326 22.4.2008, KOSOVO: INTERNATIONAL LAW AND RECOGNITION INTERNATIONAL LAW DISCUSSION GROUP AT CHATHAM HOUSE, LONDON A legal panel on the issue of recognition of Kosovo at Chatham House (www.chathamhouse.org.uk), a renowned UK think tank. Participants: Alice Lacourt, Legal Adviser, Foreign and Commonwealth Office Ralph Wilde, University College London http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/research/international_law/research_events/view/-/id/781/ 4.4.2008, A GEOPOLITICAL PERSPECTIVE The last issue of Limes (limes.espresso.repubblica.it), the leading European geopolitical magazine from Italy, is entirely dedicated to the Kosovo and Metohija problem. Kosovo, non solo Balcani http://limes.espresso.repubblica.it/2008/03/28/kosovo-non-solo-balcani/?p=535 (in Italian) On the Limes website, there is also a special section dedicated to the problem - the online continuation of the printed issue – with numerous articles. Kosovo, non solo Balcani 2.0 http://limes.espresso.repubblica.it/index.php?s=speciale+kosovo+indipendente (in Italian) The editorial deserves special attention for its detailed geopolitical maps. Lucio Caracciolo, Kosovo: per una vita basta http://limes.espresso.repubblica.it/2008/04/02/kosovo-per-una-vita-basta/?p=560 (in Italian, subscription required for the full article) 2.4.2008, KOSOVO’S CONTROVERSIAL SECESSION: VARADY VS BUCHANAN Kosovo's Independence: The Politics, Legality, and Philosophy of Secession, March 24^th, 2008 - Debate between Tibor Varady and Allen Buchanan at the Duke University, Center for International & Comparative Law http://www.law.duke.edu/news/story?id=1868&u=26 http://www.law.duke.edu/news/story?id=1768&u=26 http://www.law.duke.edu/webcast/ (webcast) 30.3.2008, INTERVIEW WITH WILLY WIMMER ABOUT THE MAY 2000 LETTER http://www.novosti.co.yu/code/navigate.php?Id=1&status=jedna&vest =118807&datum=2008-03-30 (in Serbian) 30.3.2008, PARTITION WOULDN’T SOLVE PROBLEMS: INTERVIEW WITH JOHN R. BOLTON John R. Bolton speaks for the Voice of America. http://www.politika.co.yu/rubrike/Svet/Podela-Kosova-ne-bi-reshila-problem.sr.html (in Serbian) 28.3.2008, Michael Radu, Kosovo: The Revenge of CNN and the Politics of Emotion (Foreign Policy Research Institute) http://www.fpri.org/enotes/200804.radu.kosovopoliticsemotion.html 28.3.2008, INTERVIEW WITH JEAN-PIERRE CHEVÈNEMENT http://www.politika.co.yu/rubrike/Svet/Prekinuti-kaznjavanje-Srbije.sr.html (in Serbian) 23.3.2008, GREATER ALBANIA CAN’T BE STOPPED: INTERVIEW WITH MARTIN SLETZINGER http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/374/49/ 20.3.2008, Robert M. Hayden, Outside View: Bush’s Failed Kosovo Policy (United Press International) http://www.upi.com/International_Security/Emerging_Threats/Analysis/2008/03/20/ outside_view_bushs_failed_kosovo_policy/6106/ 20.3.2008, ALLEN BUCHANAN AND JAMES CRAWFORD ON KOSOVO-QUEBEC COMPARISON http://www.nationalpost.com/scripts/story.html?id=386919 18.3.2008, Christopher Borgen, Assesing the Legality of Kosovo’s Declaration of Independence (e-International Relations) http://www.e-ir.info/?p=415 15.3.2008, George F. Will, Kosovo’s Dark Meaning (Newsweek) http://www.newsweek.com/id/123473/output/print 12.3.2008, John R Bolton, The United Nations and Kosovo Independence (American Enterprise Institute) http://www.aei.org/publications/filter.all,pubID.27632/pub_detail.asp 12.3.2008, KOSOVO-INDIA COMPARISON: INTERVIEW WITH STROBE TALBOTT http://www.thehindu.com/2008/03/12/stories/2008031255271100.htm 12.3.2008, A WORLDWIDE LEFTIST PERSPECTIVE A selection of articles assesing Kosovo and Metohija problem from the worldwide leftist perspective. Jorge Luis Herrera del Campo, Katanga ayer, Kosovo hoy, ¡y el dinero siempre! (Juventud Rebelde, 1.3.2008) http://www.juventudrebelde.cu/internacionales/2008-03-01/katanga-ayer-kosovo-hoy-y-el-dinero-siempre/ (in Spanish) Andrea Catone, Dopo l’indipendenza del Kosovo: Imperialismo e questione serba (L'Ernesto, 12.3.2008) http://www.lernesto.it/index.aspx?m=77&f=2&IDArticolo=16983 (in Italian) Sara Flounders, Kosovo’s ‘’independence’’: Washington gets a new colony in the Balkans (Workers World, 21.2.2008) http://www.workers.org/2008/world/kosovo_0228/ 7.3.2008, Tomaz Mastnak, Kosovo: A New Versailles (Foreign Policy in Focus) http://fpif.org/fpiftxt/5046 29.2.2008. Christopher Borgen, Kosovo’s Declaration of Independence: Self-Determination, Secession