‘The association that dissociates’ – narratives of local political resistance in Kosovo and the delayed implementation of the Brussels Agreement

Troncotă, Miruna

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“…Such research should appreciate the di erentiated nature of local agency (Beysoylu 2018;Kursani 2018;Phillipps 2018;Selenica 2018;Tadic and Elbasani 2018;Triantafyllou 2018;Troncota 2018). While the 'local turn' in the statebuilding literature has provided new insights into statebuilding dynamics, the literature has been less disposed to exploring the di erent facets of local agency, to understand their relevance and how they may contradict each other.…”

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“…Rather, they only have impact if, as in Hani i Elezit, these measures are given impetus by local leadership on the ground. When international strategies diverge with local political agency, the e ectiveness of statebuilding strategies is likely to be constrained (Beysoylu 2018;Selenica 2018;Tadic and Elbasani 2018;Triantafyllou 2018;Troncota 2018).…”

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“…is research contributes to the now prominent literature on the importance of local factors in determining outcomes in statebuilding, which has helpfully turned attention to how local actors react to and in uence statebuilding (Beysoylu 2018;Elbasani 2018;Kursani 2018;Mac Ginty 2010, 2011Phillipps 2018;Selenica 2018;Triantafyllou 2018;Troncota 2018). e research demonstrates the importance of one particular type of local agency: political leadership.…”

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Explaining municipal governance in Kosovo: local agency, credibility and party patronage

Jackson¹

2020

International-Led Statebuilding and Local Resistance

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What can explain the varied e ectiveness of internationally led attempts at statebuilding? This article seeks to answer this question by comparing the contrasting trajectories of governance in two municipalities in Kosovo: Hani i Elezit/Elez Han and Kamenica. In Hani i Elezit, evidence suggests that e ective and accountable governance is embedded. However, in Kamenica informal and clientelist practices persist and residents are less satis ed with the municipality's performance. As the nature and extent of internationally led statebuilding has been similar in both municipalities, explaining variation requires an analytical shift to how local leadership interacts with, receives and ultimately shapes statebuilding processes. The data are based on eldwork from 2012 to 2015. The article focuses on two critical dimensions of statebuilding: capacity building and social accountability. It argues that the impact of externally led statebuilding strategies depends on the orientation of the political leadership of the municipalities. The article identi es features of the political environment, namely credibility and the organization of political parties, which constrain the kind of public-oriented leadership necessary for e ective and accountable governance.

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Explaining municipal governance in Kosovo: local agency, credibility and party patronage

Jackson¹

2020

International-Led Statebuilding and Local Resistance

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“…Some research assesses the EU’s mediation efforts and their effectiveness in the Brussels dialogue (Bergmann, 2018; Bieber, 2015; Visoka and Doyle, 2016). Other research pays attention to local actors and how they bypass the implementation phase of EU conditionality through utilizing a range of resistance narratives (Troncotă, 2018), or it focuses on the interplay of local actors and the EU in the implementation process (Beysoylu, 2018). Although some studies offer the under-researched bottom-up perspective of local actors (see Beysoylu, 2018; Troncotă, 2018; Zupančič, 2018), these studies are still embedded within the larger frameworks of Europeanization, ‘normative power Europe’ or EU integration (see e.g.…”

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Performing statehood in Northern Kosovo: Discursive struggle over contested space

Vulovic¹

2020

Cooperation and Conflict

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Since Serbia and Kosovo began their political and technical dialogue mediated by the European Union in 2011, numerous agreements were signed, but few of them implemented. In addition, since 2018 the idea of partitioning Kosovo along ethnic lines has entered public debates. This article asks why that is the case and argues that Northern Kosovo – specifically, who has the right to claim statehood over this area – lies at the heart of why partition was suggested as a viable option and why so few agreements have been implemented. In order to demonstrate this, the article adopts a performative view of statehood, particularly suitable for states ‘in-becoming’, such as Kosovo. As only externally performed statehood has been examined so far, that is, efforts for international recognition, this article extends performativity to internally negotiated statehood, against the background of two political systems competing for legitimacy in the long run. This is the case with Northern Kosovo, conceptualized as an area of overlapping limited statehood. The developed analytical framework can be extended to other cases of territorial disputes, such as Crimea or Palestine. The framework can also be expanded to explore performativity of statehood in areas where statehood is not institutionally disputed, but rather symbolically.

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‘The association that dissociates’ – narratives of local political resistance in Kosovo and the delayed implementation of the Brussels Agreement

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Explaining municipal governance in Kosovo: local agency, credibility and party patronage

Explaining municipal governance in Kosovo: local agency, credibility and party patronage

Performing statehood in Northern Kosovo: Discursive struggle over contested space

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