Those who have been aware of international news will know that tomorrow December 10th marks a milestone in the long process of seeking a mediated solution to the conflict in a small portion of land situated in the heart in the Balkans, and what happened in just a couple of years of international policy rather tragic fame: Kosovo. Tomorrow runs the deadline by which the EU, U.S. and Russia aimed at bringing the disputing parties reach a solution and let them try to comply.
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failed.
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And in a few months, probably the Kosovars, who until now part of Serbia, unilaterally declare independence.
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Serbia will not be very happy.
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Russia's historic ally South Slavic brothers, either.
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The UN did not jump for joy. The mission headed by the Finnish Martti Ahtisaari could not reconcile the parties and the international organization once again takes no account of joy in their efforts to deal in diplomatic and institutional regional conflict that caused thousands of victims. Ahtisaari proposed a sort of gradual independence, but Serbia would never support such a measure, for the most they were willing to give was to provide a high degree of autonomy to the province, the province's majority Albanians.
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The Kosovars, on the other hand, never accepted anything but total independence of their disputed region.
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United States and other Western nations, especially European Union, smile, if only slightly, because in the end were about to culminate in the independence of Kosovo.
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What will happen after tomorrow? We do not know.
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But, what is a reflection of a region of the Balkans into a blog about the Caucasus?
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No, not confusion (indeed, many people think that the Caucasus and the Balkans are the same.) The happens is that what is happening today in the Balkans can directly affect the stability of the Caucasian tinderbox.
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As aptly reflects the latest edition of the Economist, the South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia) is plagued by separatist regions could see what happens in the former Yugoslavia as a very useful background. Abkhazia and South Ossetia (in Georgia) and Nagorno-Karabakh (Azerbaijan, but currently under Armenian control after the war between the two countries in the years 90), are examples of areas that might in the near future, cry by a similar treatment to that of Kosovo.
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Under certain perspective, these regions have similar characteristics to those of Kosovo territory inhabited by a people or an ethnic group different from the rules: the Kosovars in Serbia, the Armenians of Nagorno Karabakh in Azerbaijan, the Ossetians in Georgia, etc.
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A symbol such as Kosovo, will not go unnoticed in the South Caucasus. In fact, probably will not go unnoticed for Chechens living in Russia, the Basques and Catalans in Spain, Turks in Cyprus, and counting ...
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There are thousands, and in some cases abysmal-differences between each of the examples formulated. Still, the precedent that may occur after the outcome of Kosovo, can ignite fire wicks hungry many parts of the world.
. Zaki
Laïdi, a French political scientist, in a meaningless world, he spoke citing Freud's "narcissism of small differences." We live in a hyper, where common interests, the homogenization of culture, and the ubiquity of the same references, make many return to their roots, their unique, original and exclusive references. Thus, the smallest details will excel, and also to mark the odiosidades, attempts to separatism, the anxieties of locking between equals, even among similar.
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And here, I wonder if we are constantly seeking out gatherings of equals, or finding the differences with the other (rather than meeting points) to make some degree of distance, to recognize ourselves in the midst of this global tribe ... will not it time, that man, in this senseless impulse to segregate, and ends up staying alone?
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"All alone?
. Christopher
.
failed.
.
And in a few months, probably the Kosovars, who until now part of Serbia, unilaterally declare independence.
.
Serbia will not be very happy.
.
Russia's historic ally South Slavic brothers, either.
.
The UN did not jump for joy. The mission headed by the Finnish Martti Ahtisaari could not reconcile the parties and the international organization once again takes no account of joy in their efforts to deal in diplomatic and institutional regional conflict that caused thousands of victims. Ahtisaari proposed a sort of gradual independence, but Serbia would never support such a measure, for the most they were willing to give was to provide a high degree of autonomy to the province, the province's majority Albanians.
.
The Kosovars, on the other hand, never accepted anything but total independence of their disputed region.
.
United States and other Western nations, especially European Union, smile, if only slightly, because in the end were about to culminate in the independence of Kosovo.
.
What will happen after tomorrow? We do not know.
.
But, what is a reflection of a region of the Balkans into a blog about the Caucasus?
.
No, not confusion (indeed, many people think that the Caucasus and the Balkans are the same.) The happens is that what is happening today in the Balkans can directly affect the stability of the Caucasian tinderbox.
.
As aptly reflects the latest edition of the Economist, the South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia) is plagued by separatist regions could see what happens in the former Yugoslavia as a very useful background. Abkhazia and South Ossetia (in Georgia) and Nagorno-Karabakh (Azerbaijan, but currently under Armenian control after the war between the two countries in the years 90), are examples of areas that might in the near future, cry by a similar treatment to that of Kosovo.
.
Under certain perspective, these regions have similar characteristics to those of Kosovo territory inhabited by a people or an ethnic group different from the rules: the Kosovars in Serbia, the Armenians of Nagorno Karabakh in Azerbaijan, the Ossetians in Georgia, etc.
.
A symbol such as Kosovo, will not go unnoticed in the South Caucasus. In fact, probably will not go unnoticed for Chechens living in Russia, the Basques and Catalans in Spain, Turks in Cyprus, and counting ...
.
There are thousands, and in some cases abysmal-differences between each of the examples formulated. Still, the precedent that may occur after the outcome of Kosovo, can ignite fire wicks hungry many parts of the world.
. Zaki
Laïdi, a French political scientist, in a meaningless world, he spoke citing Freud's "narcissism of small differences." We live in a hyper, where common interests, the homogenization of culture, and the ubiquity of the same references, make many return to their roots, their unique, original and exclusive references. Thus, the smallest details will excel, and also to mark the odiosidades, attempts to separatism, the anxieties of locking between equals, even among similar.
.
And here, I wonder if we are constantly seeking out gatherings of equals, or finding the differences with the other (rather than meeting points) to make some degree of distance, to recognize ourselves in the midst of this global tribe ... will not it time, that man, in this senseless impulse to segregate, and ends up staying alone?
.
"All alone?
. Christopher
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