State Collapse and Reconstruction in the Periphery

Political Economy, Ethnicity and Development in Yugoslavia, Serbia and Kosovo
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-78920-490-2
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 332 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 485 g

In the 1990s, Yugoslavia, which had once been a role model for development, became a symbol for state collapse, external intervention and post-war reconstruction. Today the region has two international protectorates, contested states and borders, severe ethnic polarization and minority concerns. In this first in-depth critical analysis of international administration, aid and reconstruction policies in Kosovo, Jens Stilhoff Sörensen argues that the region must be analyzed as a whole, and that the process of state collapse and recent changes in aid policy must be interpreted in connection to the wider transformation of the global political economy and world order. He examines the shifting inter- and intracommunity relations, the emergence of a "political economy" of conflict, and of informal clientelist arrangements in Serbia and Kosovo and provides a framework for interpreting the collapse of the Yugoslav state, the emergence of ethnic conflict and shadow economies, and the character of western aid and intervention. Western governments and agencies have built policies on conceptions and assumptions for which there is no genuine historical or contemporary economic, social or political basis in the region. As the author persuasively argues, this discrepancy has exacerbated and cemented problems in the region and provided further complications that are likely to remain for years to come.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sörensen, Jens Stilhoff

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaften einzelner Länder und Regionen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction: Aid Policy, Reconstruction and the New Periphery

Chapter 1. Aid Policy Shift and State Transformation as Expressions of Globalisation

Chapter 2. Aid Policy and State Transformation: From Government to Governance and from Marshall Plan to Stability Pact

Chapter 3. Small Nations in One State? The Legacy of the First Yugoslavia and the Partisan Revolution

Chapter 4. Statehood Beyond Ethnicity? Socialism, Federalism and the National Question in a Developmental State

Chapter 5. Reframing Yugoslavia: From a Renegotiated State to its Breakdown

Chapter 6. Hegemony and the Political Economy of Populism: The Emergence of the Miloševic Regime and the Transformation of Serbian Society

Chapter 7. Adaptation and Resistance in a New Social Formation: Aspects of Cohesion and Fragmentation in Serbia Proper and in Kosovo

Chapter 8. Postwar Governance, Reconstruction and Development in Kosovo, 1999-2007

Chapter 9. International Support for the Development of Civil Society

Conclusion: A Political Economy of Exclusion and Adaptation

Afterword

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sörensen, Jens Stilhoff
Jens Stilhoff Sörensen is a Research Fellow in the Swedish Institute of International Affairs and at the School of Global Studies, Gothenburg University. He has worked for the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency and the OSCE.