The rise and fall of peacebuilding in the Balkans /
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Roberto Belloni.
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Cham, Switzerland :
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Palgrave Macmillan,
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[2020]
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1 online resource
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Rethinking peace and conflict studies
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Includes index.
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ReferencesPart II Brussels, or the Power of Attraction; Chapter 5 EUtopia and the Pull of Integration; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Lessons Learned; 5.3 Reforming Europe's Ways; 5.4 The Promises of the Integration Process; 5.5 EU Member States and the Enlargement Problematique; 5.6 Conclusions; References; Chapter 6 Western Balkans Transitions and the Role of the European Union; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 The Economy: Growth with Unemployment and Corruption; 6.3 Security: Stabilization and Crime; 6.4 Political and Legal Issues: Still Backward Looking
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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
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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
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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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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
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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 protest throughout the region. Citizens have variously denounced the political system, political elites, corruption and mismanagement. Rather than re-evaluating their strategy in light of mounting local discontent, international peacebuilding officials have increasingly adopted cynical calculations about stability. This book explains this evolution from the optimism of the mid-1990s to the current state through the analysis of three main phases, moving from the initial 'rise', to a later condition of 'stalemate' and then 'fall' of peacebuilding. Roberto Belloni is Professor of International Relations at the University of Trento, Italy. He has written extensively on peacebuilding and democratization, with particular reference to the Balkans. He is the holder of the Jean Monnet Chair 'The European Union and the Western Balkans: Enlargement and Resilience' (2018-2021).