Kosovo and Diplomacy since World War II: Yugoslavia, Albania and the Path to Kosovan Independence

Description

The Kosovo question posed a great challenge to the international order in the western Balkans for a number of decades prior to the outbreak of war in the 1990s. Yugoslavia, Albania, the USSR, the USA, and Great Britain have all been involved, directly or indirectly, in the question of Kosovo, especially in the period since World War II. In this book, Ethem Ceku studies the Albanian political movement in Kosovo and the efforts that it made to achieve its national programme between 1945 and 1981. He focuses particularly on questions of international diplomacy--looking especially at the roles of Albania and Yugoslavia in the Kosovo question.

Ethem Ceku is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Prishtina, Kosovo. He holds a PhD in History from the University of Prishtina

'Kosovo first caught the attention of the Western world in the 1998-1999 war and has now made its mark as an independent, though not yet universally recognized European nation. But few people know much about the country before the conflict broke out, or even why it broke out. Ethem Ceku traces Kosovo's history in politics and international relations from World War II to the 1981 Uprising that first signalled the demise of Yugoslavia. It is a lucid, well-structured account, from which both political observers and the general reader will greatly profit.'--- Robert Elsie, author of The Tribes of Albania