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UNMIK and KFOR: A False Pattern of National Identities beyond Ethnic Hatreds, part 2/6 : The Context in which the 1999 War Developed

2.1) International Factors

2.1.1) Military Developments: From Land Conquest to Artificial Demographics

Since modernity “was born under the stars of acceleration and land conquest” (Bauman 2000: 112), it generated a renewal of in trends of war through the deployment of new techniques and methods that became readily available with the rise of industrialization and of globalization. During this process of civilization, wartime violence became