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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811428003321

Autore

Sòˆrensen Jens Stilhoff

Titolo

State collapse and reconstruction in the periphery : political economy, ethnicity and development in Yugoslavia, Serbia and Kosovo / / Jens Stilhoff Sòˆrensen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, 2009

ISBN

1-282-62778-3

9786612627781

1-84545-919-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (332 p.)

Classificazione

NQ 8240

Disciplina

338.9109497

Soggetti

Failed states

Postwar reconstruction

Failed states - Yugoslavia

Postwar reconstruction - Former Yugoslav republics

Former Yugoslav republics Politics and government

Former Yugoslav republics Ethnic relations Political aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-303) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title page-State Collapse and Reconstruction in the Periphery; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1-Aid Policy Shift and State Transformation as Expressions of Globalisation; Chapter 2-Aid Policy and State Transformation; Chapter 3-Small Nations in One State?; Chapter 4-Statehood Beyond Ethnicity?; Chapter 5-Reframing Yugoslavia; Chapter 6-Hegemony and the Political Economy of Populism; Chapter 7-Adaptation and Resistance in a New Social Formation; Chapter 8-Postwar Governance, Reconstruction and Development in Kosovo, 1999-2007

Chapter 9-International Support for the Development of Civil SocietyConclusion; Afterword; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In the 1990s, Yugoslavia, which had once been a role model for development, became a symbol for state collapse, external intervention and post-conflict reconstruction. As a result, the country became the locus for new policies to be developed and tested. These policies are in



need of scrutiny and should be examined within the social and political realities that have emerged in the region, one left with two international protectorates (Bosnia and Kosovo), unresolved state formation issues, minority concerns, ethnic, social and political polarization. The author argues that both the process of s