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20 Int'l Crim. L. Rev. 1 (2020)

handle is hein.journals/intcrimlrb20 and id is 1 raw text is: INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW REVIEW Ceri aIn ll BRILL 20 (2020) 1-15 N IJ H O F F brill.com/icla Introducing the Special Issue 'Critical Perspectives on the Law and Politics of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers and the Specialist Prosecutor's Office' I Introduction The publication of this special issue comes at a critical juncture in time for Kosovo, as the young country awaits the first indictments to be issued by the Specialist Prosecutor's Office (s Po), the prosecutorial entity that is attached to the Kosovo Specialist Chambers (KSc). The prominence of the sro and the KSC for Kosovo, and more specifically its impact on domestic politics, came to the fore for the first time in a very prominent way when the incumbent Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj resigned after being summoned by the SPo to be questioned as a suspect.1 During the subsequent snap elections held on 6 October 2019, the opposition Vetevendosje party came out as winners right before the other main opposition party, the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK).2 This special issue brings together perspectives on four distinct matters related to the sPo and the KSC, written by experts coming from different back- grounds and/or disciplines. In his contribution 'The Assumptions Underly- ing the Kosovo Specialist Chambers and their Implications', Aidan Hehir con- textualises the KSC within the broad range of international initiatives that have arisen since 1999, which are premised on the assumption that international actors are a benign source of order necessary to overcome Kosovo's problems. In his piece, Hehir challenges this premise, by positing that the KSC's creation L Blerta Begisholli, 'Kosovo's Haradinaj Refuses to Answer War Prosecutor's Questions', Bal- kan Insight, balkaninsight.com/2o19/07/24/kosovos-haradinaj-refuses-to-answer-war-prose- cutors-questions/, accessed 28 December 2019. 2 Jack Robinson, 'Vetevendosje set for first place in parliamentary elections, Prishtinalnsight, 7 October 2019, prishtinainsight.com/vetevendose-set-for-first-place-in-parliamentary-elec- tions, accessed 5 January 2020. © KONINKLIJKE BRILL NV, LEIDEN, 2020 1 DOI:10.1163/15718123-02001012

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