Author: Arben Fetoshi
Author: Prof. Dr. Asoc. Arben Fetoshi – Director What lies behind Serbia’s anti-NATO narrative? Even on the 26th anniversary of NATO’s intervention against barbarism, as characterized by Tony Blair in his “Doctrine of International Community” speech on April 22, 1999, in Chicago, Serbia continues to avoid apologizing for the genocide and instead disguises itself as a political hyena aligned with Russia’s objectives. Through victim rhetoric, it attempts to obscure the ethnic cleansing, killings, and massacres committed in Kosovo—crimes which, according to human rights organizations, “left no alternative” but NATO’s intervention (Under Orders: War Crimes in Kosovo, HRW, 2001). While condemning…
Why is Serbia attempting to maintain control through fear? Asoc. Prof. Dr. Arben Fetoshi A manipulative campaign using the “cherry-picking” technique, debunked by its own reference as a source. Analyses and articles published in recent days on the Kosovo Online portal falsely referred to a conference in Prishtina that addressed trends, challenges, and countermeasures against extremism, alleging an increase in anti-Serbian narratives in Kosovo. Following the international denunciation of Serbia’s interference in the February 9 elections through money, threats, and blackmail (as reported by the EU Observation Mission and the German Ambassador to Kosovo), and the possibility that a rival…
By Arben Fetoshi How is Serbia attempting to deceive with the narrative of ethnic cleansing in Kosovo? Victimhood, as an age-old and historically mutable category, has evolved into a political strategy that dominates contemporary life. Serbia is employing this strategy as part of its hybrid warfare against Kosovo, aiming to “legitimize” the portrayal of Serbs as victims of ethnic cleansing policies before the international community. “By nature, victimhood is a claim to justice; the victim status authorizes the injured party to proclaim their harm and demand recognition and reparations,” explains Robert Horwitz in his essay, “Politics as Victimhood; Victimhood as…
Prof. Asoc. Dr. Arben Fetoshi The most serious attack against Kosovo—the sabotage of the vital Ibër-Lepenc water supply infrastructure—is still being addressed through the same parameters of international political calculations, risking its interpretation as tacit “approval” for similar attacks in the future. The “cautious” reactions aimed at avoiding prejudgment of Serbia’s culpability, despite the clear context of hybrid warfare modeled on Russian tactics in northern Kosovo, threaten to enable the recurrence of such actions aimed at destabilizing the region. Had the explosion in Zubin Potok completely destroyed the Ibër-Lepenc canal, it would have disrupted water supplies to regional water utilities…
Prof. Asoc. Dr. Arben Fetoshi In the framework of its hybrid warfare against Kosovo, Serbia has adopted the Russian model, tailored to serve its political objectives in the local context. Disinformation, cyberattacks, military threats, and subversive efforts are verified operations that Serbia attempts to mask through a strategic narrative of the “persecution and planned expulsion of the Serbian people from Kosovo.” Similar operations were carried out by Russia in its attempts to “legitimize” its aggression against Ukraine in 2022. De-Nazification, the protection of Russians from genocide, and the rectification of Soviet mistakes are Putin’s strategic narratives, aimed at concealing the…
Author: Prof. Asoc. Dr. Arben Fetoshi Despite the different definitions on the types of malicious information, information pollution is today a reality that seriously threatens democracy, security and the economy around the world. Information disorder is an influential concept that includes disinformation – as false information that is disseminated with the intention of causing harm, misinformation – as false information that is disseminated without the intent to cause harm but whose effects may nevertheless be harmful, and malinformation – as true information that is distributed with the purpose of harming a person, organization or a state. While the European Commission…
The transformation of the media as a result of information and communication technology (ICT) has brought back Lasswell’s ‘magic bullet’ to the scene as a calculated effect of media messages. Alongside the positive side of the digital revolution, with easier and faster access to information and the empowerment of marginalized groups in political communication, social media has become a ‘tragic bullet’ in the context of hybrid warfare. The trend of increasing their use as a source of information, their ability to generate, analyze analyses, and detect false content has favored the ‘devil of truth.’ In the new age of being…
Author: Arben Fetoshi The head of the largest intelligence agency in the world visits three countries of the Western Balkans without warning, for a radical operation after the ‘metastasis’ of the Russian cancer that threatens European peace. In the most critical phase of the conflict in Ukraine and the Middle East, meanwhile US is approaching the presidential elections of November the 5th, the head of the CIA “burned” Putin’s cards for a new front in the Western Balkans. The visit of William Burns to Sarajevo, Belgrade and Pristina has a special geopolitical significance with a double dimension: first, as a…