ABSTRACT
Nationalistic discourse makes us believe that current Kosovo territory is not where the border of the liberated Albanian state will be. Whether Kosovo will be annexed to the already existing Albania or not is a source of a lesser anxiety. Another, closely related issue, raises greater unease in the region, especially in the country where the imagined entity would stretch over, Macedonia. Following this reasoning, recognition of Kosovo independence is unlikely to come from Macedonia. Nevertheless, with the progress of democratization in Kosovo, which is well behind at the moment, especdially with the taming and suppressing of nationalistic forces in Kosovo, its recognition, even by Macedonia, should be a lesser difficulty. Unfortunately, two years from NATO intervention Albanian extremists did open other fronts, one in Serbia proper, in the Presevo valley, and another in north-western Macedonia. On both fronts NATO mediated peace agreements after fierce fighting.
