Shlomo Avineri

Shlomo Avineri is professor of political science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and former director-general of Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs under Yitzhak Rabin. He is currently visiting professor in the nationalism studies programme at the Central European University in Budapest.

Kosovo, Palestine, Iraq: the limits of analogy

The declaration of independence by Kosovo on 17 February 2008 is an important victory for the ideas of self-determination and national sovereignty. Ever since most of the old Ottoman vilayet

By Shlomo Avineri

/ 4 Mar 2008