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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sörensen, Jens Stilhoff, author.

Contributor:

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Postwar reconstruction.

Failed states.

Ethnic relations.

Politics and government.

Former Yugoslav republics--Politics and government.

Former Yugoslav republics.

Former Yugoslav republics--Ethnic relations--Political aspects.

Failed states--Case studies.

Postwar reconstruction--Case studies.

Failed states--Yugoslavia.

Postwar reconstruction--Former Yugoslav republics.

Yugoslavia.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

x, 318 pages : maps ; 23 cm

Edition:

First paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2019.

Summary:

In the 1990s, Yugoslavia, once a role model for development, became a symbol for state collapse, external intervention and post-war reconstruction. In this first in-depth critical analysis of international administration, aid and reconstruction policies in Kosovo, the author argues that the region must be analyzed as a whole, and that the process of state collapse and recent changes in aid policy must be interpreted in connection to the wider transformation of the global political economy and world order. He examines the shifting inter- and intracommunity relations, the emergence of a "political economy" of conflict, and of informal clientelist arrangements in Serbia and Kosovo and provides a framework for interpreting the collapse of the Yugoslav state, the emergence of ethnic conflict and shadow economies, and the character of western aid and intervention.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations. Introduction: aid policy, reconstruction and the new periphery. Aid policy shift and state transformation as expressions of globalisation

Aid policy and state transformation: from government to governance and from marshall plan to stability pact

Small nations in one state? The legacy of the first Yugoslavia and the partisan revolution

Statehood beyond ethnicity? Socialism, federalism and the national question in a developmental state

Reframing Yugoslavia: from a renegotiated state to its breakdown

Hegemony and the political economy of populism: the emergence of the Milos̆ević regime and the transformation of Serbian society

Adaptation and resistance in a new social formation: aspects of cohesion and fragmentation in Serbia proper and in Kosovo

Postwar governance, reconstruction and development in Kosovo, 1999-2007

International support for the development of civil society

Conclusion: a political economy of exclusion and adaptation

Afterword

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781789204902

1789204909

OCLC:

1097671025