1st Edition
International-Led Statebuilding and Local Resistance Hybrid Institutional Reforms in Post-Conflict Kosovo
1. State-building or state-capture? Institutional exports, local reception and hybridity of reforms in post-war Kosovo
Arolda Elbasani
2. Explaining municipal governance in Kosovo: local agency, credibility and party patronage
David Jackson
3. State-building and patronage networks: how political parties embezzled the bureaucracy in post-war Kosovo
Katarina Tadic and Arolda Elbasani
4. Implementing Brussels Agreements: the EU’s facilitating strategy and contrasting local perceptions of peace in Kosovo
Cemaliye Beysoylu
5. ‘The association that dissociates’ – narratives of local political resistance in Kosovo and the delayed implementation of the Brussels Agreement
Miruna Troncota
6. Education for whom? Engineering multiculturalism and liberal peace in post-conflict Kosovo
Ervjola Selenica
7. Statehood without an army: the question of the Kosovo Armed Force
Giorgos Triantafyllou
8. The role of epistemic communities: local think tanks, international practitioners and security sector reform in Kosovo
Jacob Phillipps
9. Salafi pluralism in national contexts: the secular state, nation and militant Islamism in Kosovo, Albania, and Macedonia
Shpend Kursani
Biography
Arolda Elbasani is a Visiting Scholar at the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies at NYU, USA, and Academic Supervisor for a project on new statehood, Kosovo Foundation for Open Society. Her research interests and publications lie at the intersection of Foreign Policy, Promotion of Rule of Law, Post-Conflict Statebuilding and Islam and Religious Pluralism with a focus on Southeast Europe and Turkey.
