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"This book presents a systematic, in-depth and comparative analysis of the role of the EU in the process of international state-building. Taking the case of Kosovo, it examines the EU's role in the birth of a state in comparison to other international actors from 1999-2008 and moves on to analyse the EU's role in norm diffusion in the post-independence period (2008-2020). Throughout the book, the author draws parallel analysis with broader debates and scholarly literature regarding the EU's role as a state-builder or norm-diffuser. Combining a liberal peace thesis framework with the normative power Europe (NPE) approach, it analyses how successful the EU and other international actors were in the diffusion of tangible and normative impacts in the process of state-building in Kosovo (1999-2008), along with the EU's diffusion of normative impact from 2008-2020. Finally, it scrutinises the role of the EU and other international actors in the processes of state-building through transference tools (funding) and overt tools (political role). This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of EU foreign policy, European politics, peace and conflict studies, the Western Balkans, state building, international organisations and more broadly to international relations"--

"This book presents a systematic, in-depth and comparative analysis of the role of the EU in the process of international state-building. Taking the case of Kosovo, it examines the EU's role in the birth of a state in comparison to other international actors from 1999-2008 and moves on to analyse the EU's role in norm diffusion in the post-independence period (2008-2020). Throughout the book, the author draws parallel analysis with broader debates and scholarly literature regarding the EU's role as a state-builder or norm-diffuser. Combining a liberal peace thesis framework with the normative power Europe (NPE) approach, it analyses how successful the EU and other international actors were in the diffusion of tangible and normative impacts in the process of state-building in Kosovo (1999-2008), along with the EU's diffusion of normative impact from 2008-2020. Finally, it scrutinises the role of the EU and other international actors in the processes of state-building through transference tools (funding) and overt tools (political role). This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of EU foreign policy, European politics, peace and conflict studies, the Western Balkans, state building, international organisations and more broadly to international relations"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations and acronyms -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Theoretical debates and conceptualisation -- Chapter 3 Background to the involvement of the EU and other international actors in the process of state-building in Kosovo (1999-2008 and 2008-2020) -- Chapter 4 Immediate economic reconstruction and free-market economy in the process of state-building in Kosovo (1999-2008) -- Chapter 5 Institution-building in the process of state-building in Kosovo (1999-2008) -- Chapter 6 Ethnic accommodation (through the principle of multi-ethnicity) in the process of state-building in Kosovo (1999-2008) -- Chapter 7 The EU's norm diffusion in post-independence Kosovo (2008-2020) -- Chapter 8 Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index.

Résumé Cet article traitera du processus de construction étatique international au Kosovo. Il fournira une synthèse bibliographique sur la construction étatique et la démocratisation (incluant société civile, culture civique, élections libres et économie de marché) de manière à analyser les rôles de la communauté internationale dans ces sujets et, de temps en temps, souligner le rôle particulier de l'UE dans ce processus. Il sera divisé en deux parties : a) Une première partie qui analysera d'un côté le rôle et le pouvoir qu'a la communauté internationale sur ce processus et d'un autre coté, les succès et échecs de la communauté internationale dans le processus de construction étatique international jusqu'à la déclaration d'indépendance du Kosovo. b) une deuxième partie qui traitera et analysera brièvement les nouveaux développements dans le Kosovo indépendant. Enfin, nous tenterons de dresser des conclusions basées sur l'analyse générale, que ce nouvel état (la République du Kosovo) peut être un état viable et autosuffisant dans un futur proche.

This article discusses the limits of the European Union's role as a state-builder in Kosovo following the NATO intervention in 1999. It builds on the conceptual literature on Europeanization, EU actorness and conditionality to explore the EU's multifaceted presence in the area and its ability to shape Kosovo's emerging statehood. In doing so the article explores the way in which the EU strategy on the ground has been conditioned by: (a) the multiplicity of EU institutions and agencies that currently engage in the process of state-building in Kosovo; (b) the presence of other powerful actors – namely NATO and the UN – with their own stakes and agendas in the area; and c) local constellations of power and particularly Kosovo's political elites as these have been shaped by the conflict of the late 1990s and its aftermath. Hence, the article studies, in a theoretically informed manner, the ongoing international efforts to build Europe's newest 'state-in-waiting' and sheds light on an integral part of the European Union's enlargement strategy in the Western Balkans.