Kosovo’s prime minister is no stranger to the spotlight.
Ramush Haradinaj, the 49-year-old former leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army, is in his second tour as the country’s premier. His first ended when he resigned to face international war crime charges that resulted from a bloody conflict that pitted Albania and ethnic Kosovars against Serbia in the 1990s. (He was acquitted.)
Haradinaj returned to power in September and was in Washington last week to mark the 10th anniversary of Kosovo’s declaration of independence — and to trumpet his government’s relationship with the United States. But the young, Muslim-majority republic faces serious challenges: high unemployment, trouble with neighbors and Islamist extremism.
