‘Border Correction’ with Serbia: Compromise or Appeasement?
Or, why Kosovo needs Lions and not Lambs.
|02.10.2018
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Political realism teaches that a country must be careful when it wants to make compromises with another country which is not happy with the status quo.
Serbia remains opposed to the status quo and its official policy is to reverse this new political order.
Kosovo should defend the status quo and make no territorial concessions to Serbia, and no concessions which substantially alter the nature of the Ahtisaari Plan.
Kosovo does not need ‘lambs’, it needs ‘lions’ who are willing to protect Kosovo’s interests and who are willing to pay the costs needed to preserve Kosovo against a revisionist Serbia.
Robert Muharremi
Robert Muharremi is assistant professor of public policy and governance at the Rochester Institute of Technology — Kosovo Campus. Since 2000 he has served in various international organizations and government institutions in Kosovo as legal and policy adviser.
DISCLAIMERThe views of the writer do not necessarily reflect the views of Kosovo 2.0.
This story was originally written in English.