{"id":4300,"date":"2018-10-12T22:22:32","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T22:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=4300"},"modified":"2018-10-12T22:22:32","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T22:22:32","slug":"why-borders-are-not-the-problem-or-the-solution-for-serbia-and-kosovo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/10\/12\/why-borders-are-not-the-problem-or-the-solution-for-serbia-and-kosovo\/","title":{"rendered":"WHY BORDERS ARE NOT THE PROBLEM OR THE SOLUTION FOR SERBIA AND KOSOVO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/02\/Kosovo-2011-Language.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3074\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/02\/Kosovo-2011-Language-1024x1024.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/02\/Kosovo-2011-Language-1024x1024.gif 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/02\/Kosovo-2011-Language-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/02\/Kosovo-2011-Language-300x300.gif 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/02\/Kosovo-2011-Language-768x768.gif 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/02\/Kosovo-2011-Language-560x560.gif 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/02\/Kosovo-2011-Language-260x260.gif 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/02\/Kosovo-2011-Language-160x160.gif 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Foreign Affairs<\/p>\n<p>By Eric Gordy<\/p>\n<p>In August, political leaders in Kosovo and Serbia proposed to resolve long-standing tensions by exchanging territory: Serb-populated municipalities in the north of Kosovo would come under Belgrade\u2019s administration, while Albanian-populated towns in the south of Serbia would be yoked to Pristina.<\/p>\n<p>Politicians and specialists weighed in on what remained a vague notion over the month that followed. Nobody seemed to regard the idea as brilliant, and in general responses ranged from grudging acceptance to shocked scorn.<\/p>\n<p>But neither side of the debate gave much consideration to what should have been its central question: How would the proposed changes affect the lives of those who reside in the areas under discussion?<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: https:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.com\/articles\/kosovo\/2018-10-10\/why-borders-are-not-problem-or-solution-serbia-and-kosovo?cid=soc-tw<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Foreign Affairs By Eric Gordy In August, political leaders in Kosovo and Serbia proposed to resolve long-standing tensions by exchanging territory: Serb-populated municipalities in the north of Kosovo would come under Belgrade\u2019s administration, while Albanian-populated towns in the south of Serbia would be yoked to Pristina. Politicians and specialists weighed in on what remained&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/10\/12\/why-borders-are-not-the-problem-or-the-solution-for-serbia-and-kosovo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WHY BORDERS ARE NOT THE PROBLEM OR THE SOLUTION FOR SERBIA AND KOSOVO<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4301,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4300\/revisions\/4301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}