ABSTRACT
With the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1244 on the 10 June 1999, NATO’s humanitarian intervention in Kosovo gave way to the establishment of the United Nations Interim Administration in Kosovo (UNMIK) and the Kosovo Force (KFOR), which provides the military back-up for the UN and its many partners in the ongoing attempt to reconstruct the province.1 The creation of this multi-organizational administration of Kosovo led by the UN, an arrangement which amounts to ‘an international trusteeship in everything but name’,2 seemed to be constructive in a number of respects, at least in the short term.
