-----Original Message----- From: J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. <rosserjb at jmu.edu> To: POST-KEYNESIAN THOUGHT <pkt at csf.colorado.edu> Date: Friday, June 11, 1999 5:42 PM Subject: Yugoslav reconstruction?
> Well, the thread on political economy now looks
>increasingly to be one about "reconstruction" or the
>lack thereof. Given what now appears to be the actual
>end of the war (yes!), although there is apparently still
>some skirmishing involving the UCK/KLA going on,
>several issues now come to the fore:
> 1) What kind of economic system will be imposed
>on Kosovo-Metohija by the UN/NATO interim government?
>Will this be like Bosnia-Herzegovina? The Rambouillet
>Accord specified a "free market economy" but there seems
>to be no such specification in these new agreements, other
>than general reconstruction and development.
> 2) In his "victory" speech, President Clinton indicated
>that Serbia would receive no aid as long as Milosevic remains
>in power, even for basic reconstruction of infrastructure destroyed
>by NATO bombs. This raises again the question I asked earlier,
>which nobody has answered, and which nobody on any list I
>have seen has even bothered to mention: what are the conditions
>for removal of the economic embargo against Serbia? These
>were put in place because of the earlier war, but somehow the
>signing and following of the Dayton Accords has been insufficient
>to have them removed. It now seems to be like those against
>Iraq, tied to the person of the ruler of the country. This seems
>deeply unfair to me. I fear that one of the reasons this recent
>war happened in the first place was due to the alienation from
>Europe and the world more broadly that the Yugoslav leadership
>has felt due to the ongoing embargo. I am no fan of Milosevic at
>all, and have "demonized" him at length on some other lists.
>But this kind of approach seems to be the exact antithesis of the
>kind of approach that the US used after WW II with the Marshall
>Plan.
>Barkley Rosser
>
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