Nearly half the ethnic Albanians in the Balkans live outside Albania, most in the Kosovo region of Yugoslavia. The Kosovar Albanian elite are demanding a quick and final answer to the ‘Albanian national question.’ But answering that question could threaten stability in the Balkans by STEFAN TROEBST THROUGHOUT THE 19TH CENTURY, THE question of what to do with the territories […]

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