Russia’s Involvement in the Kosovo Case: Defending Serbian Interests or Securing Its Own Influence in Europe?
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Radeljic, B. 2017. Russia’s Involvement in the Kosovo Case: Defending Serbian Interests or Securing Its Own Influence in Europe? Region: Regional Studies of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia. 6 (2), pp. 273-300. https://doi.org/10.1353/reg.2017.0017
Authors | Radeljic, B. |
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Abstract | This article examines Russia’s involvement in the Kosovo question. It shows that the Russian leadership has generally favored the Serbian authorities, but more importantly for its own influence, that it felt the urge to oppose the 1999 NATO intervention and the post-interventionist Western rhetoric. The argument that Russia has been primarily concerned with strengthening its own position and that involvement in the Kosovo question was expected to serve such an ambition can also be better understood by looking at some recent discrepancies. Namely, the fact that Russia has strongly insisted on the principle of territorial integrity in the case of Serbia but then completely ignored it in the case of Ukraine shows that its loud advocacy of Serbian territorial integrity was merely a strategic instrument to be deployed in European official debates, especially when the post-1999 discussions about Kosovo’s final status took place. |
Journal | Region: Regional Studies of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia |
Journal citation | 6 (2), pp. 273-300 |
ISSN | 2166-4307 |
Year | 2017 |
Publisher | Slavica |
Accepted author manuscript | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1353/reg.2017.0017 |
Web address (URL) | https://doi.org/10.1353/reg.2017.0017 |
Publication dates | |
08 Sep 2017 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 30 Jan 2018 |
Accepted | 26 Apr 2017 |
Accepted | 26 Apr 2017 |
License | All rights reserved |
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