Washington should not give foreign-policy priority to Kosovo. Merry responds to Abramowitz and Hooper’s prescriptions.
With an ICJ decision on the legality of Kosovo’s independence looming, the West should step in to help stabilize the region.
Kosovo’s independence could have costly unforeseen consequences. Or so argues National Interest Publisher Dimitri K. Simes in a debate with Ambassador Frank Wisner, the U.S. Special Envoy to the talks on the province’s future status.
The UN-backed plan that calls for Kosovo’s independence should be scrapped, say Nikolas Gvosdev and Andrew Parasiliti.
"Standards before status" was a good policy to have adopted and should still remain the guiding principle when dealing with Kosovo.
It is a good time to review the developments in Kosovo since 1999, which highlight the dire consequences of excessively ambitious long-distance social engineering and centralism in name of nation-building.
The Kosovo issue is far from resolved, and acceptance and imposition of the Settlement Plan by the Security Council could lead to renewed violence and instability, and have repercussions far beyond the Western Balkans.
Naser Rugova, a senior policy advisor in the office of the prime minister of Kosovo, outlines why independence for Kosovo is vital to domestic and regional progress and prosperity...
U.S., EU ready to dissect Serbia. But Kosovo’s independence would not be a surgical solution.
Last week, I wrote that realists "believe policy should be evaluated by its likely results, not by the motives or intentions of its framers.