The Kosovo-and Montenegro-effect

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ID3708656
AuthorsRick Fawn (0000-0003-1903-8773, University of St Andrews, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume84
Issue2
Pages269-294
Publication date2008-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Affairs (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-5850 • E-ISSN: 1468-2346
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/j.1468-2346.2008.00703.x
OpenAlexW2096905502
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited23

The post-communist space continues to generate new internationally recognized states while incubating unrecognized but de facto states. Recent movement in the Balkans—the independence of Montenegro and the arduous deliberations over Kosovo's future —have variously encouraged other secessionist people and would-be states, particularly in the former Soviet Union. This article analyses the impact of developments in Montenegro and Kosovo on several levels, including: their usage by de facto states; the reactions to them by central governments; Russian policy; and western and intergovernmental responses to these challenges. The article further argues that the Russian position on Kosovo and on the so-called ‘frozen’ or unsettled conflicts neighbouring Russia could ultimately backfire on it. Western policy towards both Kosovo and on the post-Soviet frozen conflicts will be best served by signalling to Russia, irrespective of the exact form of Kosovo's independence, that neither its own interests nor broader western-Russian relations are served by using or reacting to any Kosovo ‘precedent’

Communism · De facto · Development economics · Economics · Ethnology · European union · Independence (probability theory) · International trade · Montenegro · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Position (finance) · Sociology · Soviet union · State (computer science) · Cyprus History, Politics, Society · European Politics and Security · Law · Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics

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