State Collapse and Reconstruction in the Periphery : : Political Economy, Ethnicity and Development in Yugoslavia, Serbia and Kosovo / / Jens Stilhoff Sörensen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Sörensen, Jens Stilhoff,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (332 p.)

In the 1990s, Yugoslavia, which had once been a role model for development, became a symbol for state collapse, external intervention and post-war reconstruction. Today the region has two international protectorates, contested states and borders, severe ethnic polarization and minority concerns. In this first in-depth critical analysis of international administration, aid and reconstruction policies in Kosovo, Jens Stilhoff Sörensen 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. Western governments and agencies have built policies on conceptions and assumptions for which there is no genuine historical or contemporary economic, social or political basis in the region. As the author persuasively argues, this discrepancy has exacerbated and cemented problems in the region and provided further complications that are likely to remain for years to come.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- Introduction AID POLICY, RECONSTRUCTION AND THE NEW PERIPHERY -- 1 AID POLICY SHIFT AND STATE TRANSFORMATION AS EXPRESSIONS OF GLOBALISATION -- 2 AID POLICY AND STATE TRANSFORMATION: FROM GOVERNMENT TO GOVERNANCE AND FROM MARSHALL PLAN TO STABILITY PACT -- 3 SMALL NATIONS IN ONE STATE? THE LEGACY OF THE FIRST YUGOSLAVIA AND THE PARTISAN REVOLUTION -- 4 STATEHOOD BEYOND ETHNICITY? SOCIALISM, FEDERALISM AND THE NATIONAL QUESTION IN A DEVELOPMENTAL STATE -- 5 REFRAMING YUGOSLAVIA: FROM A RENEGOTIATED STATE TO ITS BREAKDOWN -- 6 HEGEMONY AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF POPULISM: THE EMERGENCE OF THE MILOŠEVIĆ REGIME AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF SERBIAN SOCIETY -- 7 ADAPTATION AND RESISTANCE IN A NEW SOCIAL FORMATION: ASPECTS OF COHESION AND FRAGMENTATION IN SERBIA PROPER AND IN KOSOVO -- 8 POSTWAR GOVERNANCE, RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT IN KOSOVO, 1999–2007 -- 9 INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF CIVIL SOCIETY -- CONCLUSION: A POLITICAL ECONOMY OF EXCLUSION AND ADAPTATION -- AFTERWORD -- REFERENCES -- INDEX