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Kosovo: Contending Voices on Balkan Interventions
Edited by William J. Buckley
Eerdmans Publishing. July 2000
In Kosovo: Contending Voices on Balkan Interventions,
editor William J. Buckley has assembled an impressive selection of articles
dealing with the Kosovo conflict and third-party response.
The book is structured into seven sections, each providing a different perspective on the conflict. Buckley was careful to balance firsthand accounts with academic approaches and comments from political figures active in the conflict and its resolution.
Within the sections, the articles were chosen to provide a dialectic analysis of the Kosovo question, and the variety of well-argued viewpoints come as something of a surprise for anyone whose knowledge of the situation is primarily derived from the mainstream media.
The diversity of contributors is exceptional. Buckley has gathered statements from political leaders such as Slobodan Milosivic, Kofi Annan, and Vaclav Havel; peacekeeping and military leaders such as General Wesley K. Clark and Javier Solona; foreign policy experts such as Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski; and thinkers as disparate as Jurgen Habermas and Jean Bethke Elshtain. Along with these outside perspectives, Buckley included a diverse selection of Balkan contributors. The result is a book that succeeds in giving each perspective an opportunity to be heard.
This book should become required reading for any class addressing the Kosovo conflict and is well suited for even general conflict and conflict resolution courses, since it shows the complexity of any large ethnic conflict and provides a variety of solutions. Buckley is to be commended for assembling such a well-rounded and comprehensive volume.
| Table of Contents |
| Introduction William Joseph Buckley |
| I. VOICES UNDER THE BOMBS |
| What Have Persons Experienced
Firsthand? A Tale from Prishtina Flora Keirnendi Belgrade Sisters under Siege: Excerpts from the War Diary of Ivanka Besevic Ivanka and Olga Besevic "My Father Was Burned Alive": Testimonies from Kosovo Refugees Sevdije Ahrneti Diary of a Refugee Camp Doctor Fokko de Vries Blackbirds: Experiences of a Refugee Camp Worker David Holdridge Eudgame in Kosovo: Ethnic Cleansing and American Amnesia Mark Danner The Milosevic Generation Blame Harden |
| II. VOICES FROM THE BALKAN PAST
What Is the Historical and Cultural Context? A Brief History of Serbia Tim Judah Kosovo, the Illusive State Miranda Vickers Reinventing Skenderbeg: Albanian Nationalism and NATO Neocolonialism Fatos Lubonja A History of the Kosovo Liberation Army Tim Judah What Is Eastern Christianity? The Christian East: Unity and Diversity Kallistos Ware Muslim Identity and Ethnicity in the Balkans Hugh Poulton Serbs and Muslims in the Distorted Mirror of the Yugoslav Crisis Darko Tanaskovic Vuk's Knife: Kosovo, the Serbian Golgotha, and the Radicalization of Serbian Society Michael A. Sells Kosovo's Parallel Society: The Successes and Failures of Nonviolence Denisa Kostovicova Balkan Diaspora I: The Albanian-American Community Fron Nazi Balkan Diaspora II: The History and Future of the Serbian Community in America Nick Vucinich The Balkans: From Invention to Intervention Maria Todorova |
| III. VOICES OF TODAY'S BALKAN PEOPLE
What Do People from the Region Think? ALBANIANS Portrait of a People Ismail Kadare Kosova: A Place Where the Dead Speak Baton Haxhiu Conflict and Empowerment Aferdita Kelmendi Because Kosovars Are Western, There Can Be No Homeland Without a State Blerim Shala Kosova Hashim Thaqi SERBS Now That We Have Lost This Little World War: A Message for Slobodan Milosevic Dobrica Cosic Not Exactly New Hampshire: A Short Survey of Contemporary Serbian Politics Dejan Anastasijevic How to Solve the Kosovo Problem Zoran Djindjic Fascism, Feminist Resistance, and the Kosovo Crisis Zarana Papic |
| IV. VOICES OF WORLD LEADERS What Do Authorities Say? Fresh Cause for Hope at the Opening of the New Century NATO Secretary General Javier Solana The Effectiveness of the International Rule of Law in Maintaining International Peace and Security Kofi Annan Winning the Peace: America's Goals in Kosovo Morton H. Halperin Not Losing Sight of Justice: Ethically Evaluating Kosovo William Joseph Buckley Address to the Senate and the House of Commons of the Parliament of Canada Vaclav Havel Winning Peace: The Vatican on Kosovo Archbishop Jean-Louis Tauran The Strength of an Alliance General Wesley K. Clark The Strength of an Argument William Joseph Buckley Two Roads Diverged, and We Took the One Less Traveled: Just Recourse to War and the Kosovo Intervention Martin L. Cook Interview with Slobodan Milosevic Arnaud de Borchgrave The KLA Brought NATO to Kosova Hashim Thaqi |
| V. VOICES OF POLITICAL COMMENTATORS
How Is the Intervention Debated? Kosovo and the Vicissitudes of American Foreign Policy Henry Kissinger Bestiality and Humanity: A War on the Border between Law and Morality Jurgen Habermas Get Serious About Kosovo Zbigniew Brzezinski Kosovo Michael Walzer Debating Kosovo: An Exchange Robert Skidelsky and Michael Ignatieff Why the Balkans Demand Amorality Robert D. Kaplan Give War a Chance Edward N. Luttwak Force and Humanitarian Intervention: The Case of Kosovo David Little |
| VI. ETHICAL AND RELIGIOUS VOICES
How Is the Crisis Ethically and Religiously Evaluated? Kosovo and the Just-War Tradition Jean Bethke Elshtain The Ethno-Religious Challenge to Global Order Mark Juergensmeyer The Former Yugoslavia: A Warning Example for World Peace, a Challenge for World Churches Hans Kung Kosovo Crisis Contexts: Nationalism, Milosevic, and the Serbian Orthodox Church Stanley Samuel Harakas Legitimation, Justification, and the Politics of Rescue Richard B. Miller Kosovo: A War of Values and the Values of War Brian Hehir A Pacifist Response to Ethnic Cleansing James W. Douglass On Giving the Devil the Benefit of Law in Kosovo Nigel Biggar Kosovo: The Ethics of Heaven, Earth, and Hell Gabriel Fackre |
| VII. VOICES FOR THE FUTURE
What Issues Must Be Faced? The Protectorate Timothy Garton Ash "Peacekeeping" in Kosovo: Mission Impossible? Julie Menus Montenegro Pushes for Statehood Janusz Bugajski Some Reflections beneath the Bombs in Belgrade Svetozar Stojanovic Should Kosovo-Metohia Remain a Part of Serbia/Yugoslavia: A Plea for a Just Solution Slobodan Samardzic Why Kosova Should Be Independent Shkelzen Maliqi Religious Dynamics in Kosovo and the Potential for Cooperation William F. Vendley and James L. Cairns Kosova and the Transition of the Century Veton Surroi Why Try? Martha Minow |
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