The evidence for successful postwar democratic transitions is not encouraging: since 1989, the international community has launched 19 major peacebuilding operations. These operations were reasonably successful in securing peace, but much less successful in establishing a democratic regime. Five years after the operations began, only two countries qualified as liberal democracy; also, no recent...

Does the involvement of foreign third parties in management a country wake civil war have positive or negative economic effects? The approaches used to address this question social and political science literature are mostly qualitative not sufficiently supported by quantitative evidence. This paper uses analysis postconflict performance Kosovo East Timor under international administrations spo...

The main purpose of this study is to measure the impact capital structure on financial performance commercial companies in Kosovo. Specifically, it aims relationship between ratio total debt and return employed (ROE), as well debt-to-equity assets (ROA) ratio. Panel data were used Kosovo for period 2014-2019. indicators included equity, while represented by equity (ROE). results show that durin...

From January 1, 2018, most of the commercial banks in Kosovo adopted IFRS 9. The new standard introduces expected credit loss model to allow for timely recognition losses, estimated not only on actual but also forward-looking information regarding current loan portfolio. Although, transition phases may lead increasing impairments and a decrease banks’ equity, which directly influences financial...

Setting The poor patient adherence in tuberculosis (TB) treatment is considered to be one of the most serious challenges which reflect the decrease of treatment success and emerging of the Multidrug Resistance-TB (MDR-TB). To our knowledge, the data about patients' adherence to anti-TB treatment in our country are missing. Objective This study was aimed to investigate the anti-TB treatment ad...

In many economically struggling societies, forensic psychiatry is still in its initial developmental stages and thus forensic patients pose an ongoing challenge for the healthcare and juridical systems. In this article, we present the various issues and problems that arose when establishing the first forensic psychiatric institute in Kosovo - a country whose population has constantly been repor...

The study aims to explore the divergences around implementation of Basel III agreement, since this agreement is considered core international regulatory response financial crisis, setting strictest criteria for capital structure and risk assessment. This paper explains current level legislation that applies in Kosovo, as well possible with set by III. It argued national authority, explicitly CB...

The development of Albanian Art Music in Kosovo started after World War II and it shared the same fate as other countries situated Balkans. has gone through different political, social economic situations all which were part then ex- Yugoslavia (1918-1991). However, impact was stronger due to beginning last war (commencing 1990, almost a decade before war), that made ten mandatory years deserti...

The trajectory that the process of defining political-legal status Kosovo has followed been as complex and difficult, well unclear both in terms time content. While UNSC Resolution 1244 maintained (suspended) Yugoslavia's sovereignty over UN international administration (UNMIK) was envisaged a transitional phase then sides, Albanian Serbian side had completely different expectations. first expe...