Kosovo bubble – from inflation of virtual identity to the end of history
Journal Title: European Journal of Geopolitics - Year 2016, Vol 4, Issue
Abstract
This article discusses the Kosovo issue relating it to the theory of Poststructuralism and the Bretton Woods economic system. Just as Poststructuralism denies the existence of truth in its anti-essentialism and as Bretton Woods economy operates with money lacking basis in gold and real value, so does the Albanian politics of identity try to constitute on the specious projections concerning nation, language, and history. The consequence of Bretton Woods system is economic bubble which in the end always burst due to its loss of connection with real value; thus in this article we aim to show that the region of Kosovo is itself one kind of a virtual bubble the bursting of which This article discusses the Kosovo issue relating it to the theory of Poststructuralism and the Bretton Woods economic system. Just as Poststructuralism denies the existence of truth in its anti-essentialism and as Bretton Woods economy operates with money lacking basis in gold and real value, so does the Albanian politics of identity try to constitute on the specious projections concerning nation, language, and history. The consequence of Bretton Woods system is economic bubble which in the end always burst due to its loss of connection with real value; thus in this article we aim to show that the region of Kosovo is itself one kind of a virtual bubble the bursting of which
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Aleksandar Petrović, Danko Kamčevski
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