Sovereignty, State Failure and Humanitarian Intervention: The International Community in the Post-Yugoslav Space (Sovereignty) (Essay‪)‬

Plus ca change ... Continuity and Change in the Balkans Looking at Latin America, China, Africa, Turkey and the Balkans in "the Stakes of Diplomacy", the great Washington writer and intellectual Walter Lippman identified the "weak state" as "the chief, the overwhelming problem of diplomacy." Considering the turmoil surrounding the recent birth of the newest Balkan state, Kosovo, it is hard to disagree that Lippman's observation applies as much to contemporary southeast Europe as to the global problems of 1915, when he wrote his seminal book.