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International-Led Statebuilding and Local Resistance contributes
theoretical and empirical insights to the existing knowledge on the
scope, challenges and results of post-conflict international state-
and institution-building project focusing on post-war Kosovo.
Post-war Kosovo is one of the high-profile cases of international
intervention, hosting a series of international missions besides a
massive inflow of international aid, technical assistance and
foreign experts. Theoretically, the book goes beyond the standard
narrative of international top-down institution building by
exploring how international and local factors interact, bringing in
the mediating role of local resistance and highlighting the
hybridity of institutional change. Empirically, the book tests
those alternative explanations in key areas of institutional reform
- municipal governance, public administration, normalization of
relations with Serbia, high education, creation of armed forces,
the security sector and the hold of Salafi ideologies. The findings
speak to timely and pertinent issues regarding the limits of
international promotion of effective institutions; the mediating
role of local agents; and the hybrid forms of institution-building
taking shape in post-conflict Kosovo and similar post-war contexts
more broadly. Addressing challenges of state-building at the
intersection of international interventions, local strategies of
resistance, and the hybridity of institution-building experience
with institutional reforms in Kosovo and in post-conflict contexts
more broadly, International-Led Statebuilding and Local Resistance
will be of great interest to scholars of international relations,
state building and post-conflict societies. The chapters were
originally published as a special issue of Southeast European and
Black Sea Studies.
The book investigates the scope and limitations of the
transformative power of EU enlargement in the Western Balkans. The
extension of EU enlargement policy to the region has generated high
expectations that enlargement will regulate democratic
institution-building and foster reform, much as it did in Central
and Eastern Europe. However, there is very little research on
whether and how unfavourable domestic conditions might mitigate the
transformative power of the EU. This volume investigates the role
of domestic factors, identifying 'stateness' as the missing link
between the assumed transformative power of the EU and the actual
capacity to adopt EU rules across the region. Including chapters on
Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo, and
Bosnia-Herzegovina, leading scholars in the field offer up-to-date
comparative analysis of key areas of institutional and policy
reform; including state bureaucracy, rule of law, electoral
management, environmental governance, cooperation with the
International Court of Justice, economic liberalization and foreign
policy. Looking to the future and the implications for policy
change, European Integration and Transformation in the Western
Balkans provides a new theoretical and empirical focus on this
little understood area. The book will be of interest to scholars
and students of EU politics, comparative democratisation,
post-communist transitions and Balkan area studies.
The book investigates the scope and limitations of the
transformative power of EU enlargement in the Western Balkans. The
extension of EU enlargement policy to the region has generated high
expectations that enlargement will regulate democratic
institution-building and foster reform, much as it did in Central
and Eastern Europe. However, there is very little research on
whether and how unfavourable domestic conditions might mitigate the
transformative power of the EU. This volume investigates the role
of domestic factors, identifying 'stateness' as the missing link
between the assumed transformative power of the EU and the actual
capacity to adopt EU rules across the region. Including chapters on
Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo, and
Bosnia-Herzegovina, leading scholars in the field offer up-to-date
comparative analysis of key areas of institutional and policy
reform; including state bureaucracy, rule of law, electoral
management, environmental governance, cooperation with the
International Court of Justice, economic liberalization and foreign
policy. Looking to the future and the implications for policy
change, European Integration and Transformation in the Western
Balkans provides a new theoretical and empirical focus on this
little understood area. The book will be of interest to scholars
and students of EU politics, comparative democratisation,
post-communist transitions and Balkan area studies.
International-Led Statebuilding and Local Resistance contributes
theoretical and empirical insights to the existing knowledge on the
scope, challenges and results of post-conflict international state-
and institution-building project focusing on post-war Kosovo.
Post-war Kosovo is one of the high-profile cases of international
intervention, hosting a series of international missions besides a
massive inflow of international aid, technical assistance and
foreign experts. Theoretically, the book goes beyond the standard
narrative of international top-down institution building by
exploring how international and local factors interact, bringing in
the mediating role of local resistance and highlighting the
hybridity of institutional change. Empirically, the book tests
those alternative explanations in key areas of institutional reform
- municipal governance, public administration, normalization of
relations with Serbia, high education, creation of armed forces,
the security sector and the hold of Salafi ideologies. The findings
speak to timely and pertinent issues regarding the limits of
international promotion of effective institutions; the mediating
role of local agents; and the hybrid forms of institution-building
taking shape in post-conflict Kosovo and similar post-war contexts
more broadly. Addressing challenges of state-building at the
intersection of international interventions, local strategies of
resistance, and the hybridity of institution-building experience
with institutional reforms in Kosovo and in post-conflict contexts
more broadly, International-Led Statebuilding and Local Resistance
will be of great interest to scholars of international relations,
state building and post-conflict societies. The chapters were
originally published as a special issue of Southeast European and
Black Sea Studies.
This book shifts analytical focus from macro-politicization and
securitization of Islam to Muslims' choices, practices and public
expressions of faith. An empirically rich analysis, the book
provides rich cross-country evidence on the emergence of autonomous
faith communities as well as the evolution of Islam in the broader
European context.
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