Shaping Peace in Kosovo

The Politics of Peacebuilding and Statehood
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-84542-5
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 361 g

Reihe: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies

This book explores the prospects and limits of international intervention in building peace and creating a new state in an ethnically divided society and fragmented international order. The book offers a critical account of the international missions in Kosovo and traces the effectiveness of fluid forms of interventionism. It also explores the co-optation of peace by ethno-nationalist groups and explores how their contradictory perception of peace produced an ungovernable peace, which has been manifested with intractable ethnic antagonisms, state capture, and ignorance of the root causes, drivers, and consequences of the conflict. Under these conditions, prospects for emancipatory peace have not come from external actors, ethno-nationalist elite, and critical resistance movements, but from local and everyday acts of peace formation and agnostic forms for reconciliation. The book proposes an emancipatory agenda for peace in Kosovo embedded on post-ethnic politics and joint commitments to peace, a comprehensive agenda for reconciliation, people-centred security, and peace-enabling external assistance.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Visoka, Gëzim

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Friedenssicherung, Krisenintervention
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Europäische Union, Europapolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Konflikt- und Friedensforschung, Rüstungskontrolle, Abrüstung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Staats- und Regierungsformen, Staatslehre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: Intervention, Peace and the State.- 2: Fluid Interventionism and the Politics of Peacebuilding.- 3: The Politics of Statehood and the Ungovernability of Peace.- 4: Local Resistance and the Politics of Self-Determination.- 5: Civil Society and Peace Formation.- 6: Peace as Normalisation.- 7: The Quest for an Emancipatory Peace.

Über Autor(innen)

Gëzim Visoka is Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies at the Institute for International Conflict Resolution and Reconstruction at Dublin City University, Ireland.