The Emergence of the Kosovo "Parallel State," 1988-1992.

This article focuses on the emergence of Kosovo. Though current public images of Kosovo have largely been shaped by the events surrounding the violent conflict of 1999 and NATO intervention, as well as postwar ethnic violence and questions over Kosovo's unresolved status, a critical but largely understudied phase of the ethnic conflict in Kosovo is the emergence of the Albanian "parallel state" during the early 1990s. Kosovo being an autonomous province of Serbia and a constituent unit of the Yugoslav federation, the social and institutional contours of the Kosovo conflict were directly shaped by the institutional structures and cultural identities existing in the Yugoslav system.