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"This edited book analyzes Kosovo's foreign policy and bilateral relations with the United States and several European countries. After the 1999 liberation from Serbia, Kosovo built close relations with various countries which supported it in the process of reconstruction, economic stabilization, institution-building, and state-building. From 1999 to 2008, many of these states were politically and operationally engaged in Kosovo under the leadership of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). Since its independence in 2008, the Republic of Kosovo has adopted a foreign policy in accordance with its values and str...
This edited book analyzes Kosovo’s foreign policy and bilateral relations with the United States and several European countries. After the 1999 liberation from Serbia, Kosovo built close relations with various countries that supported it in the process of reconstruction, economic stabilization, institution-building, and state-building. From 1999 to 2008, many of these states were politically and operationally engaged in Kosovo under the leadership of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). Since its independence in 2008, the Republic of Kosovo has adopted a foreign policy in accordance with its values and str...
This book examines the international efforts to regulate violence in Kosovo since 1999 through the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) and covers 15 years of international presence. The book analyses the process of implementing international policies from a sociological perspective, and looks at the adaptations and arrangements of public policies achieved through the transactions of international actors with local actors, who are at the heart of policy implementation. In particular, it analyses the disarmament, demobilisation, and reintegration of combatants (DDR) programme and shows the extent to which it was co-produced with Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) leaders co-opted by internation...
This Brief provides a survey of key political, social, and economic issues affecting the Western Balkans region. Taking a two-pronged conceptual approach focusing on fragmentation and integration, the volume highlights commonalities and differences in a number of simultaneous dynamics currently characterizing the region: Europeanization and EU access, market integration, and migration and socio-demographic transformations. Stressing the interconnectedness of these issues, the volume synthesizes key questions for the future of the region, such as the relationship between socio-demographic trends and economic development, the effects of depopulation on further EU integration, and the economic and political repercussions of enhanced intra-regional trade. Explicitly interdisciplinary, this Brief will be useful for researchers and students specializing in the Balkans and Western Balkans, post-socialist countries, European affairs, enlargement, foreign policy, international relations, regional studies, economics, economic transition, and socio-demographics.
This volume provides one of the first comprehensive feminist readings of international statebuilding, with a specific focus on the case of Kosovo. Rather than simply showing how the state in Kosovo is being built by and through women and feminist encounters, this volume is interested to problematise women and feminist subjectivities vis-à-vis the state and statebuilding. The book challenges three main arguments related to the processes and subjects of statebuilding in Kosovo. First, the academic literature on Kosovo has a tendency to take the international intervention of 1999 as the originary point of statebuilding processes in Kosovo. Second, and relatedly, given Kosovo's unprecedented ex...
Délaissé jusqu’il y a peu par la mondialisation car considéré comme une « cause perdue » de l’économie internationale, le continent africain est désormais courtisé tant par les puissances industrielles traditionnelles (États-Unis, Europe) que par toute une série d’acteurs émergents (Brésil, Chine, Inde, Russie, Afrique du Sud). Depuis les années 2000, ces derniers se sont dotés de stratégies africaines et les liens tissés avec le continent sont devenus aussi divers que nombreux allant de la diplomatie à l’économique en passant par le commerce et/ou la coopération au développement, universitaire et/ou militaire. Les raisons de ce rapprochement sont multiples : né...
In this book are presented and analysed local scholarly perspectives on contemporary political, legal and societal developments in Kosovo and how path-dependent historical legacies set in motion prior to and during the war for independence, coupled with dependence on and interdependence with external actors shaped society and institutions.
Allsvensk fotboll har aldrig varit hetare. Derbyn drar rekordpublik, spelare säljs för gigantiska summor och Östersunds FK överraskar ute i Europa. Men hur ser det ut på andra sidan spelargången? Vem styr över allsvenskan? Vem bestämmer i klubbarna? Och var hamnar pengarna? Olof Lundh är den ihärdigaste granskaren av svensk fotboll, den som ställer makthavarna mot väggen och inte ger sig förrän han fått svar på de obekväma frågorna. Han utsågs till årets sportjournalist 2015 och tilldelades Per Wendel-priset som årets nyhetsjournalist 2016. I Allsvenskan enligt Lundh skärskådar han maktspelet i vår mest älskade idrotts högsta serie.