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Researcher of KIPRED Adem Gashi

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In order for a common Albanian state to be promoted, the constitution needs to be changed first. Adem Gashi a researcher of the Kosovar Institute for Policy Research and Development in an interview for DespiteBorders

Adem Gashi is working as a researcher of the Kosovar Institute for Policy Research and Development (KIPRED), which is Kosovo’s leading political think tank. We have asked him for an interview on Kosovo’s parliamentary elections focusing on the Serbian political parties operating in Kosovo of Hashim Thaçi Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK)…

UN forces KFOR helicopter

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Stances of Balkan countries on the declaration of Kosovo’s independence

The independence of Kosovo declared on 18th February, 2008, remains hitherto controversial question since it hasn’t been even recognised by all “developed” countries. In this connection particularly the possible legal precedent and subsequent efforts of other regions to gain independence (from political point of view) are being discussed. All the more it may seem that this issue divides the Balkans into a multiethnic…

Peace sign on the streets of the divided capital of Cyprus, Nicosia

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Kosovo and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus – comparative analysis

Since February 2008, when Kosovo unilaterally declared independence, there is a new state on the world map. Kosovo is not the first “break away chunk of territory” that dared to declare independence. There have been several similar attempts all over the world in the past. However, the qualitative difference between all such declarations is that only the sovereignty of Kosovo has been recognized by a number of…

Bridge over the Ibar - symbol of the division of Mitrovica. Source: Time.com

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Kosovo: (Il)logical Attitude of European Countries

The declaration of independence of Kosovo on 17th February 2008 was an expected act opening a new chapter of international relations, international system and above all, of international law. From the point of view of Pristina and of unilateral independence declaration, this is not the first case in history. Kosovo becomes a precendent only in relation to the manner of declaration…