The rise and fall of peacebuilding in the Balkans

The rise and fall of peacebuilding in the Balkans / Roberto Belloni.

This book examines the evolution of liberal peacebuilding in the Balkans since the mid-1990s. After more than two decades of peacebuilding intervention, widespread popular disappointment by local communities is increasingly visible. Since the early 2010s, difficult conditions have spurred a wave of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Belloni, Roberto (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
Series:Rethinking peace and conflict studies.
Subjects:
Peace-building > Balkan Peninsula.
Peace-building
Balkans.
Peacebuilding.
Intervention.
Conflict prevention.
Balkan Peninsula
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Acronyms; Chapter 1 Peacebuilding in the Balkans; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 The Rise of Liberal Peacebuilding; 1.3 Entering the Balkans; 1.4 Peacebuilding's Three Phases; 1.5 Overview; References; Chapter 2 The Evolution of Peacebuilding; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Peacebuilding's Rise, Stalemate, and Fall; 2.2.1 Phase 1: Dayton, or Liberal Imposition; 2.2.2 Phase 2: Brussels, or the Power of Attraction; 2.2.3 Phase 3: Tuzla, or the Local Turn; 2.3 Conclusions; References; Part I Dayton, or Liberal Imposition
  • Chapter 3 Stability and the Anti-corruption Agenda3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Rents and Patronage; 3.3 Peacebuilding and the Search for Stability; 3.4 Peacebuilding Transitions and Corruption; 3.5 Corruption Practices; 3.6 The Rise of the Anti-corruption Agenda; 3.7 Conclusions; References; Chapter 4 Addressing the Symptoms Through Civil Society Building; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Peace Troubles and the Rise of the Civil Society Agenda; 4.3 The Ambiguities of Civil Society Building; 4.4 Civil Society and the Fight Against Corruption; 4.5 The European Union and Civil Society; 4.6 Conclusion
  • 6.5 The European Union in Search of a Policy6.6 Turning Enlargement into a Mirage?; 6.7 Conclusions; References; Part III Tuzla, or the Local Turn; Chapter 7 Local Views: Scepticism Towards Europe and Its Consequences; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Euroscepticism and European Integration; 7.3 Euroscepticism in the Western Balkans; 7.4 Why Euroscepticism?; 7.5 Geopolitical Competition; 7.6 Conclusions; References; Chapter 8 Undoing International Peacebuilding from Below?; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 The Roots of Popular Discontent; 8.3 Public Agency and Political Protests
  • 8.4 Experimentalist Governance at Work8.5 Conclusions; References; Chapter 9 Conclusions; 9.1 Peacebuilding and Its Discontents; 9.2 Re-launching European Enlargement; 9.3 Peacebuilding, R.I.P; References; Index

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