Abstract :
In many ways, the present situation in Kosova speaks of a dramatic failure on the part of the
international administration to grasp the local specifics of the last fifteen years of conflict in the
Balkans. Even based on its own criteria, the international community’s failure have been
impossible to avoid. Among the more glaring examples is the more or less complete segregation
of Kosova’s population along the very Serb and non-Serb divide sought by Serb nationalists
since the late 1980s. This segregation, along with any number of policies imposed by the
international community in its administration of Kosova since 1999, has conceded to a kind of
logic that reaffirms xenophobic conceptions that Albanians and Serbs cannot live together,
exactly opposite what the administration in Kosova today publicly proclaims.
