Problems Regarding Kosovo's Independence

Yoji Koyama

Chapter 4 in The EU's Eastward Enlargement:Central and Eastern Europe's Strategies for Development, 2015, pp 87-112 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: There used to be a country called Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY: former Yugoslavia) in the Balkan Peninsula. This federal state was consisted of six republics: Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, and Macedonia. Within the Republic of Serbia, the Autonomous Province of Kosovo existed together with the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. From the mid-1991 through 1992 the former Yugoslavia disintegrated, and there remained only Federal Republic of Yugoslavia consisting of Serbia and Montenegro (FR Yugoslavia). In 2003 FR Yugoslavia was reorganized into a State Union (Serbia and Montenegro), and in 2006 Montenegro became independent, leaving Serbia. Although Kosovo was de jure an Autonomous Province in the Republic of Serbia, it was de facto a protectorate of the United Nations since June 1999 when the Kosovo war ended. Its area is 10,908 km2 and its population is about two million with 90% being Albanian.

Keywords: Central and Eastern Europe, EU Accession; , Eurozone Crisis, Small Countries, Western Balkans, Croatia, Greece, Albania, Expansion of EU Membership, (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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