1st Edition

The EU as a State-builder in International Affairs The Case of Kosovo

By Labinot Greiçevci Copyright 2022
268 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

268 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

268 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book presents a systematic, in-depth, and comparative analysis of the role of the EU in the process of international state-building and is one of the first comprehensive books to do so at an international level. Taking the case of Kosovo, it examines the EU's role in the birth of a state in comparison to other international actors from 1999 to 2008 and moves on to analyse the EU's role in... Read more

1. Introduction 

2. Theoretical Debates and Conceptualisation 

3. Background to the Involvement of the EU and other International Actors in the Process of State-building in Kosovo (1999–2008 and 2008–2020) 

4. Immediate Economic Reconstruction and Free-Market Economy in the Process of State-building in Kosovo (1999–2008) 

5. Institution-building in the Process of State-building in Kosovo (1999–2008) 

6. Ethnic Accommodation (through the Principle of Multi-ethnicity) in the Process of State-building in Kosovo (1999–2008) 

7. The EU’s Norm Diffusion in Post-independence Kosovo (2008–2020) 

8. Conclusions

Biography

Labinot Greiçevci is Executive Director at the Research Institute of Development and European Affairs (RIDEA), and Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Political Science at the UBT College, Kosovo.