[Pen-l] now split Kosovo?

["Jim Devine" <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

>New York TIMES /World Briefing | Europe

>Kosovo: Demonstrators Protest U.N. Plan
>By DAN BILEFSKY
>Published: December 3, 2008

>Several thousand demonstrators took to the streets of Pristina, Kosovo's capital, on Tuesday to protest the planned deployment of a European Union judicial mission that many ethnic Albanians fear will partition the new country. The 2,000-strong mission would be deployed under a plan agreed to last week by the United Nations Security Council and accepted by Kosovo's prime minister, Hashim Thaci. Critics say the mission violates Kosovo's sovereignty and fear that separate chains of command planned for Serbian and Albanian police forces would entrench the country's partition along ethnic lines. <

If this split is a real threat, this fits with a trend that was
highlighted a decade or so ago: at the same time capital is becoming
more globalized, the nation-states are becoming more fragmented.
(Maybe this trend has stopped, however.)
-- 
Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own
way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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