The West is more interested in Kosovo’s image than its problems
International efforts to create a reflection of an imagined self doesn’t benefit citizens.
|2018.11.08
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Kosovo is expected to cherish multi-ethnicity, undertake transitional justice, and embrace an array of good governance benchmarks because Kosovo’s external sponsors like to imagine this is what they themselves embody.
Aidan Hehir
Aidan Hehir is a Reader in International Relations at the University of Westminster. His research interests include transitional justice, humanitarian intervention, and statebuilding in the Balkans. He is the author/editor of eleven books and co-editor of the Routledge
Intervention and Statebuilding book series. In 2022 his novel “The Flowers of Srebrenica” was published by Qendra Multimedia.
DISCLAIMERThe views of the writer do not necessarily reflect the views of Kosovo 2.0.
This story was originally written in English.