Performance and Perceptions: Analyzing the Domestic Susceptibility to Shared Sovereignty Institutions in Kosovo (Research Brief)
February 15, 2011
When it comes to postconflict management we do not have a theory to fall back on. Establishing democratic institutions with the involvement of international actors has been accepted as a broadly common strategy, and yet both scholars and policy makers are aware of challenges that international state-building presents. This project addresses the problems of international state-building through a close examination of these practices in Kosovo. It departs from the customary trend of analyzing such practices on the level of systemic/institutional design; instead it seeks to engage the view from below. The research is centered around the question: How does the local population in Kosovo perceive international state-building, how are these impressions generated, and what are the mechanisms, the social structures, and the policy entrepreneurs that affect this process?
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Anika Bishka, of the University of Illinois at Chicago, was a 2010-11 Individual Advanced Research Opportunities (IARO) fellow.
