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Nation failure, ethnic elites, and balance of power : the international administration of Kosova
- Title
- Nation failure, ethnic elites, and balance of power : the international administration of Kosova / Shinasi A. Rama.
- Author
- Rama, Shinasi A., 1959-
- Publication
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- x, 344 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- This book examines the history of nation-building in Kosova as a model of how the theories behind nation-building, state-building and peace-building can succeed or fail. The author argues that two missing factors led to successful state-building but failed nation-building in Kosova: the balance of power and the ethnic elite. The author uses his unique expert knowledge gained over thirty years of study to present a thorough overview of international administration and nation-building in Kosova.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-344).
- Contents
- The security syntheses and the transformation of the other into a deadly existential threat -- From Gandhian pacifism and communitarianism to the war and the warlordism : the adjustment of the Albanian security synthesis -- Failed negotiations, intervention, and ethnocide : the self-fulfilling prophecy of the security syntheses -- Kosova as a chessboard : the centrality of the balance of power -- International pro-consuls and marginalized élites : the security syntheses and the élite fight for survival -- The prelude to the elections : power-sharing and the failure of the multiethnic project -- And the dominant cleavage is... : democracy, nationalism, and the triumph of the security syntheses -- The triumph of the security syntheses : toward a newborn, yet stillborn, national state -- In lieu of a conclusion : chasing Proteus : deadly existential threats, the security synthesis, the existential entities, and the state.
- Call Number
- JFD 19-1927
- ISBN
- 9783030051914
- 3030051919
- 9783030051921 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2018964181
- OCLC
- 1084414148
- Author
- Rama, Shinasi A., 1959- author.
- Title
- Nation failure, ethnic elites, and balance of power : the international administration of Kosova / Shinasi A. Rama.
- Publisher
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-344).
- Chronological Term
- Since 2008
- Other Form:
- Online version: Rama, Shinasi A., 1959- Nation failure, ethnic elites, and balance of power. Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019] 9783030051921 (OCoLC)1082981112
- Research Call Number
- JFD 19-1927