[PEN-L:6261] Re: An International Protectorate in Kosovo

["J. Barkley Rosser, Jr." <rosserjb@xxxxxxx>]

Yoshie,
     Maybe "self-determination" is an illusion, but I
don't see why some kind of limited "autonomy" would
be so.  As your post notes there is disagreement over
the nature of any peacekeeping force (or whatever term
you would prefer to use) that would be there.  But we now
see a lot of de facto limited autonomy in former ethnic
war zones.  That is what Chechnya has, still officially part
of Russia in the eyes of the world but de facto independent.
     To a lesser degree, and probably more comparable to
the situation in Kosovo-Metohija, that is what we have with
the Srpska Republika in Bosnia, which is also recognized
by the world to be a part of the nation of Bosnia-Herzegovina,
but which has considerable if clearly limited autonomy within
its zone of control, limited by presence of peacekeepers who
have indeed intervened in its internal politics, but who have
nevertheless succeeded in largely keeping the peace since
1995, despite the numerous continuing problems in the area.
Barkley Rosser
-----Original Message-----
From: Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>
To: pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, April 29, 1999 7:33 PM
>Subject: [PEN-L:6199] An International Protectorate in Kosovo


>Those leftists who use words like 'autonomy' and 'self-determination' for
>Albanians in Kosovo as if such things could ever be achieved under USA/NATO
>suffer from the worst kind of illusion or delusion to which even the New
>York Times seems immune. Yoshie
>
>*****  The New York Times
>April 29, 1999, Thursday, Late Edition - Final
>SECTION: Section A; Page 16; Column 1; Foreign Desk
>HEADLINE: CRISIS IN THE BALKANS: NEWS ANALYSIS;
>Clinton's Quandary: No Approach to End War Is Fast or Certain of Success
>BYLINE:  By JANE PERLEZ
>DATELINE: WASHINGTON, April 28
>
>...For their part, the Administration and NATO insist for now that they
>will stick to their five conditions. The most contentious of these are the
>composition of the international security force that would take Albanian
>refugees back to Kosovo and the character of an international protectorate
>that the Administration has said it favors carving out in Kosovo....  *****
>
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