The Albanian national unification in the Balkans area in the context of Kosovo’s political party programs

Session

Political Science

Description

Presentation of different parties’ attitudes, can also directly affect the state policies. So, as such, this research mainly deals with treatment of the Albanian issue in the Balkan area in Kosovo's political party programs. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to analyze and discuss at what level is the Albanian national unification in the Balkans integrated into the programs of relevant Kosovo parties or which is party position on this issue. The selected method for analyzing the relevant literature and documents is Qualitative content analysis. After applying this method, the results are significant in several directions. It can be concluded, that despite all the challenges facing the Kosovo parties, they very briefly or only indirectly elaborate Albanian issue in their party programs. From the findings it turns out that the majority of Kosovo political parties are not for Albanian national unification in the Balkans. In this context, all programs have been analyzed, namely the Kosovo political parties documents, dealing with the above subject. In this regard, the importance of this research has to do with the facts and with a real situation to understand Kosovo parties’ attitudes in relation to the treatment of the Albanian issue.

Keywords:

Kosovo, political parties, Albanian issue, party programs

Session Chair

Islam Lauka

Session Co-Chair

Belul Beqaj & Alfred Marleku

Proceedings Editor

Edmond Hajrizi

ISBN

978-9951-437-69-1

Location

Pristina, Kosovo

Start Date

27-10-2018 5:00 PM

End Date

27-10-2018 6:30 PM

DOI

10.33107/ubt-ic.2018.407

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The Albanian national unification in the Balkans area in the context of Kosovo’s political party programs

Pristina, Kosovo

Presentation of different parties’ attitudes, can also directly affect the state policies. So, as such, this research mainly deals with treatment of the Albanian issue in the Balkan area in Kosovo's political party programs. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to analyze and discuss at what level is the Albanian national unification in the Balkans integrated into the programs of relevant Kosovo parties or which is party position on this issue. The selected method for analyzing the relevant literature and documents is Qualitative content analysis. After applying this method, the results are significant in several directions. It can be concluded, that despite all the challenges facing the Kosovo parties, they very briefly or only indirectly elaborate Albanian issue in their party programs. From the findings it turns out that the majority of Kosovo political parties are not for Albanian national unification in the Balkans. In this context, all programs have been analyzed, namely the Kosovo political parties documents, dealing with the above subject. In this regard, the importance of this research has to do with the facts and with a real situation to understand Kosovo parties’ attitudes in relation to the treatment of the Albanian issue.