State collapse and reconstruction in the periphery [[electronic resource] ] : political economy, ethnicity and development in Yugoslavia, Serbia and Kosovo / / Jens Stilhoff Sörensen

• Autore: Sörensen Jens Stilhoff
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Berghahn Books, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (332 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.9109497
• Soggetto topico: Failed states; Postwar reconstruction; Failed states - Yugoslavia; Postwar reconstruction - Former Yugoslav republics
• Soggetto geografico: Former Yugoslav republics Politics and government; Former Yugoslav republics Ethnic relations Political aspects
• Classificazione: NQ 8240
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: State collapse and reconstruction in the periphery
• ISBN: 1-282-62778-3; 9786612627781; 1-84545-919-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910791241003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II