As NATO summits go, this weekend's meeting of the alliance's members in Chicago may be memorable if only for being the least memorable one in recent history. Of course, quiet summits are not necessarily bad summits. 

Kosovo's declaration of independence from Serbia and its subsequent recognition by the West could spell a new, disruptive era of separatist civil wars.

An imposed settlement of the Kosovo question and the partitioning of Serbia's sovereign territory without its consent is not in the interest of the United States.

The separation of Kosovo is threatening to the Balkans and may divideRussia from the West.

On February 3, 2008, Boris Tadić was reelected president of Serbia on a platform calling for greater integration with Europe. Shortly afterwards, and as expected, Kosovo’s prime minister announced that the Kosovar parliament would within days declare Kosovo’s independence from Serbia. Kosovo’s imminent declaration presents a significant diplomatic challenge for...

The Balkans return to the headlines this month, as the United States and Europe prepare to launch negotiations to determine whether Kosovo—the breakaway Serbian province over which they went to war in 1999—becomes an independent state.

Can diplomacy at last bring peace and stability to the Balkans, or do negotiations...

The international community is creating a dynamic that threatens to exacerbate the ambiguity concerning Kosovo's political future, rather than resolve it.