Author: Arben Fetoshi
Author: Asoc. Prof. Dr. Arben Fetoshi – Director at Institute for Hybrid Warfare “OCTOPUS” Why Does Serbia’s Interference Pose a Threat to National Security? The significance of Sunday’s local elections (October 12) goes far beyond a political competition for the governance of municipalities in Kosovo. Serbia’s interference, more aggressive than in the past due to the failure of its boycott policy (2022) and the decline of its control in the north, have turned these elections into a geopolitical battlefield aligned with the Russian axis.What is disguised as an electoral campaign of the Serbian List is, in fact, a choreography orchestrated…
Two years since the terrorist attack in Banjska, Zvečan Author: Prof. Asoc. Dr. Arben Fetoshi- Director of Institute for Hybrid Warfare Studies “OCTOPUS” Two years after the incursion in Banjska, Zvečan, framed as a terrorist attack against the constitutional order of Kosovo, the Balkans remain under the threat of Serbia’s chauvinist appetites and the revisionist axis led by Russia. The unchanged goal of sabotaging the Republic of Kosovo has only sharpened the insidious methods of manipulation and nationalist mobilization. After the failure of Radoičić and his paramilitaries, as a result of the effectiveness of Kosovo’s security institutions in coordination with…
The address of the Director of the Institute for Hybrid Warfare Studies “OCTOPUS,” Assoc. Prof. Dr. Arben Fetoshi, participated in the 8th Ambassadors’ Conference, organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Diaspora of Kosovo. The conference, held in Pristina, featured several thematic sessions, including one titled “Non-Conventional Security Threats and Risks,” in which Mr. Fetoshi took part. — PROPAGANDA AS “HIGH RISK” In the current circumstances of geopolitical clashes, the Republic of Kosovo is a frontline between the democratic order and its enemies; it is the battlefield between the TRUTH and its distortion, as a precondition for the goals…
An ICJ decision that ignited the geopolitical calculations of the Serbo‑Russian axis Author: Prof. Asoc. Dr. Arben Fetoshi On the 15th anniversary of the International Court of Justice’s Advisory Opinion (ICJ, 2010) on the legality of Kosova’s independence, a legal act has symbolically transformed into a “frontline” between the democratic order and today’s revisionist ambitions. The request originally submitted by Serbia itself (Vuk Jeremić, 15 August 2008) to the UN General Assembly, and the pledge to respect the ICJ’s ruling, returned like a “boomerang,” exposing Serbia’s hypocrisy after 22 July 2010, when it resumed diplomatic aggression against Kosova. Ironically, a…
On the 30th Anniversary of the Srebrenica Genocide: Manipulating Truth as a Strategy for the “Serb World” Assoc. Prof. Dr. Arben Fetoshi With only one or two bones found from each of the seven victims being buried today at the Srebrenica-Potočari Memorial Center, the 30th anniversary of the largest crime in Europe since World War II is being marked. Mevlida Omerović decided to end her long wait and bury only her husband’s jawbone, while in parallel to the Serbian rampage in Kosovo, hundreds of Albanian mothers still wait for any trace of their 1,600 missing loved ones. The International Criminal…
Serbia’s Old Rhetoric as a New Threat to the Balkans Prof. Asoc. Dr. Arben FETOSHI We are increasingly facing the danger of a déjà vu of history: Vučić’s Serbia has revived Milošević’s narrative of “Serb victimhood,” but now with the goal of completing the hegemonic project of the “Serbian World.” In its battle with Kosovo, Serbia has intensified its insidious strategies of mobilization and manipulation, while in Bosnia and Herzegovina it exploits Dodik’s ethno-nationalism, and in Montenegro the identitarian and religious ideology through Serbian parties and the Orthodox Church. The imitation of the Russian model of “Firehose of Falsehood” by…
Author: Prof. Asoc. Dr. Arben Fetoshi – Director at Institute for Hybrid Warfare Studies “OCTOPUS” The technique of “emotional hijacking” as Serbia’s warning of violent scenarios The coordinated reactions of the Serb List and the so-called Office for Kosovo in the Government of Serbia against every institutional action by Kosovo aimed at dismantling parallel structures in the north are no longer merely a disinformation campaign or the well-known victimization strategy. They now serve as a warning of “civil resistance,” representing one of the most threatening phases of Serbia’s hybrid warfare. Screams about the “endangerment of children,” slanders regarding “harassment of…
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Arben Fetoshi Based on the initiative and the ongoing debate in Germany regarding a political party that is considered a threat to democratic consensus, the political system, and the fundamental values of the European Union—where Germany plays a leading role—this analysis examines the case of the Serbian List in Kosova in light of its similarities and differences with Alternative for Germany (AfD). Although they operate in different contexts—the first, as an extension of Belgrade’s official policy, exploiting Kosova’s ‘privileges’ to undermine its statehood, and the second as an ‘extremist organization’ taking advantage of Germany’s ‘privileges’ to challenge…
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…