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1.1 A Communist Construction of Eternal Ethnic Hatreds

The weak state structure inherited from Titoist communism facilitated the dissemination of Serbian nationalism in Kosovo (Ignatieff 2003: 85). Like in Bosnia (Malesevic 2006: 225), the collapse of communist state structures after Tito’s death—intertwined with the rise of modern ideology and technology and with changes in the geopolitical situation—created a ‘status vacuum’ that favored

The crisis in Kosovo could be construed as “a long and observable series of interventions by strong states into the affairs of their weaker neighbors” (Hogde, 2000: 44). UNMIK failed to stop the hatred between Serbs and Albanians in