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In this text, Paulin Kola offers an argument challenging the idea that Albanian-speaking peoples in the Balkans wish to form a common state. ... Read more

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Kosovo: The Politics of Identity and Space explores the Albanian-Serbian confrontation after Slobodan Milosevic's rise to power and the policy of repression in Kosovo through the lens of the Kosovo education system. The argument is woven around the story of imposed ethnic segregation in Kosovo's education, and its impact on the emergence of exclusive notions of nation and homeland among the Serbian and Albanian youth in the 1990s. The book also critically explores the wider context of the Albanian non-violent resistance, including the emergence of the parallel state and its weaknesses. Kosovo: The Politics of Identity and Space not only provides an insight into events that led to the bloodshed in Kosovo in the late 1990s, but also shows that the legacy of segregation is one of the major challenges the international community faces in its efforts to establish an integrated multi-ethnic society in the territory.

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or the past ten years, a family of Albanian activists has directed a network of Albanian emigres across the U.S., raising money and running illicit guns into Albania and Kosovo. When the war in Kosovo began in earnest, they organized shipments of guns and American volunteers, some of whom left schools and colleges in the New York area to fight for a homeland they hardly knew. From Brooklyn to Kosovo with Love and AK47s tells the remarkable stories of these activists, as well as those of their homelandits divisions, its profound loyalties, and its war-torn history. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (12)

Fair and accurate reporting...
When I had bought the book, I assumed that it would simply tell the story of Florin Krasniqi and how this 'lone ranger' saved Kosovo through financial support.However, this book, to my pleasant surprise, offered a much broader look at this war, it's build up and it's aftermath.From my own research and other books I've read, this book in comparison offered a fairly accurate and unbiased view of this war.Most of the books you read will tend to take one side or the other.And, while the author uses the Krasniqi family as a focus throughout the book, she does an adequate job of making sure not to hail them as 'the winner' or hero in the war.Bottom line: this book tells the amazing story of atrocities faced in this tiny disputed country, the power struggle that took place and the world and people's response to this very difficult situation.Well worth the read if you are looking for accurate facts about both sides in this war or the amazing story of just how loose American gun laws are...

Be Not Afraid of the title
This book not only makes learning fun, it actually doubles as a thriller, a true life version of the Eric Ambler novels that pivot on an everyday citizen -- here, a sometime livery driver in New York -- who finds himself deep in intrigues that will determine whether Europe explodes into war. There's gunrunning, mass graves, high wire diplomacy, and the straw man purchase of a Tanzanian elephant. Sullivan even makes the history arresting, drawing from the walls of the Krasniqi family home the cycles of destruction and vengeance that propel its young men into a thrilling adventure that really was torn from the headlines, but which unfolds so breathlessly on these pages it's possible, even likely to forget how it comes out. A ripping yarn.

Interesting....
I would Have to say that I found this book extremely interesting. I thought that it spoke to the determination of a person to help his family and people at a time when most western governments and "diplomats" were circling around attempting to appease a genocidal madman named milosevich.
The book was well written, researched and went to the core of human compassion. A must read story. I would also have to say that I found some of the comments here regarding the book more in terms of irrelevant personal opinion and less about an actual review of the book.

A must for those wanting to know Kosovo from the inside
Having lived many years in Kosovo after the war, I found many people who have not lived here think the KLA and the revolutionary movement did not exist, or that they are terrorists of the worst kind. This book shreds those misconceptions and illustrates how love of one's country will lead any person on a similar path to ensure his country and countrymen's freedoms.Any westerner will question his or her own patriotism - how far would you go to save your country from oppression?I bet many would hide and run away, not find ways to make a different path for so many!

Excellent history of the UCK side
Sullivan's book recounts the Kosovo conflict as seen by participants and supporters of the Kosovo Liberation Army (UCK).Despite this focus on one side of the conflict, it is remarkably even-handed, and does not gloss over misconduct by the UCK and Kosovo Albanians during and after the war.It is not (and does not claim to be) a complete history of the conflict, but it's an important contribution to that history. ... Read more