The European Union And Everyday Statebuilding In Kosovo
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| Author | : Ramadan Ilazi |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2021 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
This thesis examines the European Union's everyday statebuilding practices in Kosovo. Although there is an ample research on the EU's work in Kosovo, the existing accounts have primarily focused on the performance of institutions and instruments of the EU, such as conditionality in the accession process, and do not sufficiently engage with the micro politics and the everyday dynamics that foreground the agency in the statebuilding process. The thesis focuses on examining the everyday practices and various actors that enable the EU to assert its power and influence over domestic decision-making process in rule of law and public administration, and conflict mediation. Drawing mostly on extensive field research and participant observation in Kosovo, this thesis expands our understanding of the EU's statebuilding practices and its effectiveness. Contrary to the mainstream accounts on the EU, this thesis finds that the EU's statebuilding capacity in the field is shaped by prudent conduct, improvisation, and pragmatic navigation attuned more to serve the immediate interests of EU's actors rather than those of beneficiary communities. The very process of statebuilding is organized around creating a role for a protracted and embedded involvement of the EU rather than empowering local institutions and enabling local ownership over the statebuilding process. The thesis finds that what constitutes of the EU in everyday encounters is different from the perceived image of the EU as a normatively and organizationally consistent actor. What constitutes the EU to the local actors are the subcontracted experts from technical assistance projects, who are the norm entrepreneurs, but who lack proper supervision by the EU, and more than often improvise their input, such as best practices from member States or norm to solve complex local challenges. Ultimately, intermeshing of political and technocratic actors among the EU enables the organization to exert power, but also exposes many flaws which tend to undermine its image and long term impact. Thus, this empirical account of everyday statebuilding approaches of the EU makes an important contribution to the overall studies of the EU as an emerging global actor.
| Author | : Ramadan Ilazi |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 161 |
| Release | : 2023-09-11 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1000955826 |
This book examines the European Union’s everyday statebuilding practices, using the case of Kosovo as an example of how it uses informal practices to influence local actors. The objective of the book is to explain how the EU operates as a statebuilding actor in the everyday context, outside its zone of comfort. It illustrates the EU’s dynamics of dealing with the local actors through everyday practices, which are understood as informal means or practices of interaction with the local actors in the framework of three key issues of relevance for statebuilding process for the EU: rule of law, reforming public administration and resolving bilateral disputes. The book shows how the EU utilizes everyday practices to influence decision-making process on the part of the government in order to ensure a particular outcome, be that diffusing a norm or promoting its own interests; in doing so, it gives an important insight into what these interests actually are in practice. In providing an insight into how the EU works as a statebuilding actor in practice in the everyday context, it unmasks factors that facilitate the EU’s influence on other countries that it considers to be ‘ailing’, such as Kosovo, in order to secure desired behaviours, decisions, and actions on the part of the local government. It also unmasks the EU’s commitment to being an ethical actor by unearthing practices that undermine local agency, the practical intentions of the EU’s statebuilding intervention approaches, and the reality that hides behind the façade of public statements on the part of the EU and the local government. In doing so, the book provides a new way to look at the EU as a statebuilding actor. This book will be of interest to students of statebuilding, EU policy, Balkan politics and, International Relations.
| Author | : Vjosa Musliu |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 156 |
| Release | : 2021-05-17 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1000393658 |
This book provides a critical understanding of Europeanization and statebuilding in the Western Balkans, using the notion of everyday practices. This volume argues that it is everyday and mundane events that provide the entry points to showcase a broader set of practices of Europeanization in countries outside the EU. It does this by tracing notions of Europeanization in the everyday statebuilding of Kosovo, Europe Day celebrations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, urban politics in Tirana, and space and place making in Skopje. In doing so, the book shows that everyday events tell us that as much as it is about changing structures, institutions, and economic models, Europeanization is also about changing behaviours and ideas in populations at large. At the same time, the work shows that countries outside the EU use everyday events to perform their belonging to Europe. This book will be of much interest to students of European Studies, Balkan politics, statebuilding, and International Relations generally.
| Author | : Labinot Greiçevci |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 206 |
| Release | : 2021-11-04 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1000470792 |
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 norm diffusion in the post-independence period (2008–2020). Throughout the book, the author draws parallel analyses with broader debates and scholarly literature regarding the EU’s role as a state-builder or norm-diffuser. Combining a liberal peace thesis framework with the normative power Europe (NPE) approach, it analyses how successful the EU and other international actors were in the diffusion of tangible and normative impacts in the process of state-building in Kosovo (1999–2008), along with the EU’s diffusion of normative impact from 2008 to 2020. Finally, it scrutinises the role of the EU and other international actors in the processes of state-building through transference tools (funding) and overt tools (political role). This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of EU foreign policy, European politics, peace and conflict studies, the Western Balkans, state-building, international organisations, and more broadly to international relations.
| Author | : Ioannis Armakolas |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 245 |
| Release | : 2019-07-05 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 3030179451 |
This edited volume explores the different ways in which members of the European Union have interacted with Kosovo since it declared independence in 2008. While there is a tendency to think of EU states in terms of two distinct groups – those that have recognised Kosovo and those that have not – the picture is more complex. Taking into account also the quality and scope of their engagement with Kosovo, there are four broad categories of member states that can be distinguished: the strong and weak recognisers and the soft and hard non-recognisers. In addition to casting valuable light on the relations between various EU members and Kosovo, this book also makes an important contribution to the way in which the concepts of recognition and engagement, and their relationship to each other, are understood in academic circles and by policy makers.
| Author | : Soeren Keil |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2014-12-05 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1135092265 |
This book critically examines the process of statebuilding by the EU, focusing on its attempts to build Member States in the Western Balkan region. This book analyses the European Union's policies towards, and the impact they have, upon the states of the Western Balkans, and assesses how these affect the nature of EU foreign policy. To this end, it focuses on the tools and mechanisms that the EU employs in its enlargement policy and examines the new instruments of direct intervention (in Bosnia and Kosovo), political coercion (in the case of Croatia and Serbia in relation to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia), and stricter conditionality in the Western Balkan countries. The book discusses the key aim of this special form of statebuilding, which is to establish functional liberal-democratic states in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia in order for them to join the EU and to cope with the responsibilities and pressures of membership in the future. However, the authors argue that while the EU sees itself as an international actor that promotes and protects liberal-democratic values, norms and principles, its experiences in the Western Balkans demonstrate how the EU ́s actions in the region have undermined the basic principles of democratic decision-making (such as the European support for impositions in Bosnia) and international law (Kosovo), and have consequently contributed to new tensions (see police reform in Bosnia, and the tensions between Kosovo and Serbia) and dependencies. This book will be of much interest to students of statebuilding, EU politics, global governance and IR/Security Studies in general.
| Author | : Gëzim Visoka |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 233 |
| Release | : 2018-06-13 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1351977881 |
How do emerging states obtain international recognition and secure membership of international organisations in contemporary world politics? This book provides the first in-depth study of Kosovo’s diplomatic approach to becoming a sovereign state by obtaining international recognition and securing membership of international organisations. Analysing the everyday diplomatic discourses, performances, and entanglements, this book contends that state-becoming is not wholly determined by systemic factors, normative institutions, or the preferences of great powers; the diplomatic agency of the fledgling state plays a far more important role than is generally acknowledged. Drawing on institutional ethnographic research and first-hand observations, this book argues that Kosovo’s diplomatic success in consolidating its sovereign statehood has been the situational assemblage of multiple discourses, practiced through a broad variety of performative actions, and shaped by a complex entanglement with global assemblages of norms, actors, relations, and events. Accordingly, this book contributes to expanding our understanding of the everyday diplomatic agency of emerging states and the changing norms, politics, and practices regarding the diplomatic recognition of states and their admission to international society.
| Author | : Andrea Lorenzo Capussela |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2015-03-19 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1786739836 |
The history of Kosovo is a complicated one which typifies the darker side of modern Balkan history. Milosevic s Serbia withdrew from Kosovo in 1999 and the province was handed over to a special UN body who governed until 2008, when the West allowed Kosovo to become independent. The aim was to erect a stable and well governed democracy, but the outcome was a fragile state, which still threatens the stability of the Balkans and Europe s internal security. How did this happen? Here, Andrea Lorenzo Capussela offers an inside look at the process of building democracy in Kosovo. As head of the economics unit of Kosovo s international supervisor, Capussela has had access to previously unknown sources and information regarding the roles of the EU and the US in the crisis. This will be an essential reading for those studying the Kosovo crisis.
| Author | : Dren Doli |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 2019-02-19 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 3030059952 |
This book represents a unique endeavor to elucidate the story of Kosovo’s unilateral quest for statehood. It is an inquiry into the international legal aspects and processes that shaped and surrounded the creation of the state of Kosovo. Being created outside the post-colonial context, Kosovo offers a unique yet controversial example of state emergence both in the theory and practice of creation of states. Accordingly, the book investigates the legal pathways, strategies, developments and policy positions of international agencies/actors and regional players (in particular the EU) that helped Kosovo to establish its independence and gradually acquire statehood. Although contested, Kosovo, and its quest for statehood, represents a unique example of successful unilateral secession. The book therefore explores and analyses patterns of state formation and nation-building in Kosovo, and its transition to democracy. It presents a three-level assessment. First, seen from a historical perspective, the book examines the validity of the right of Kosovar-Albanians to self-determination and remedial secession. Second, from a legal positivist perspective, it scrutinizes all of the legalist arguments that support Kosovo’s right to statehood, and claims that both traditional and legality-based criteria for statehood remain insufficient to determine whether Kosovo has achieved statehood. Third, from a post-factum perspective, the book analyzes the scope and extent to which the internationally blended element was decisive in Kosovo’s state-formation and state-building processes. It explains how the EU’s involvement as an ‘internationally blended element’ in Kosovo’s efforts to achieve statehood was instrumental and played a crucial role in shaping the emerging state. In particular, the book elaborates on how the EU was able to streamline its mode of intervention in the context of state-building and reform.
| Author | : Nicasia Picciano |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 470 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9783830086642 |
