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Russia’s Use of the KosovoKosovo Case to Legitimize Military Interventions and Territorial Conquests

In: Fault Lines After COVID-19

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  • Valur Ingimundarson

    (University of Iceland)

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In this chapter, Valur Ingimundarson discusses the Russian arguments for secession, state creation, and/or annexation in post-Soviet states. Russia has sought to expand its power in Ukraine and Georgia by claiming that its actions are mirror images of the Western military intervention in Kosovo and recognition of its secession from Serbia. It is argued that by combining these separate, if interlinked, motives, the Russians have turned concepts such as “genocide,” “self-determination,” and “sovereignty” into signifiers without fixed legal or political meanings. Thus, even if Russia still refers to the Kosovo War as a breach of international law and opposes Kosovo’s independence, it relies on both examples to justify its own wars and territorial revisions.

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  • Valur Ingimundarson, 2023. "Russia’s Use of the KosovoKosovo Case to Legitimize Military Interventions and Territorial Conquests," Springer Books, in: Robert Z. Aliber & Már Gudmundsson & Gylfi Zoega (ed.), Fault Lines After COVID-19, pages 185-198, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-26482-5_11
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-26482-5_11
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