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List of contents
Introduction
1. From secessionist challenge to armed insurgency: examining the spiral of violence in Kosovo prior to 1999
2. Coercive diplomacy: Humanitarian intervention and its controversies in Kosovo
3. Quasi-independence: The political and territorial impact of Humanitarian Intervention
4. Curtailed sovereignty: The complexities of consolidating the territorial transformation
5. The problem of the North and the potential for further border transformations in Kosovo
6. Kosovo beyond Kosovo: the collateral effects on other territorial conflicts
Conclusion
About the author
Jaume Castan Pinos works as an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science and Public Management, University of Southern Denmark. He holds a Ph.D. in International Politics (Queen's University Belfast, 2011). He is the Director of the European Studies Bachelor programme at the University of Southern Denmark. His academic interests are framed by ethno-territorial conflicts, sovereignty and political violence. He has conducted extensive research in Catalonia, North Africa and former Yugoslavia.
Summary
This book looks at the implications for territorial and border relations, exploring the case of Kosovo, which in many ways can be seen as a turning point in post-cold war international humanitarian intervention.
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"Geopolitics isn’t just the manoeuvres of great powers and Castan Pinos highlights the geopolitics of peripheral conflicts by focusing on NATO’s ‘humanitarian’ intervention in Kosovo. An artful blend of regional expertise and political theory, Castan Pinos’s latest book is a must-read for those interested in how geopolitics actually works." — Steven M. Radil, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Idaho, USA
"Castan Pinos’s study of the "collateral consequences" of NATO’s intervention in Yugoslavia and the subsequent Kosovo’s unilateral declaration of independence offers a timely and important examination into the ad hoc approaches to conflict resolution to one of the last open-ended conflicts in the Balkans. Challenging assumptions that Kosovo’s statehood is sui generis, this work links moral imperatives for humanitarian intervention with strategic policies of Realpolitik." — Michael Rossi, Lecturer, Department of Politics, Rutgers University, USA
