Nation Creation: Kosovo's Rocky Road to Independence
By Carne Ross
Published on Slate.com, 2 March 2006
Creating new states is a tricky business at the best of times. The delicate crust of stability, both within the putative new state and among those countries that must recognize it, can easily be sundered. Nowhere is that crust more fragile than in the Balkans, as recent history has all too bloodily demonstrated.
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