Nation failure, ethnic elites, and balance of power : the\ international administration of Kosova

This book examines the history of nation-building in Kosova as a model of how the theories behind nation-building, state-building and peace-building can succeed or fail. The author argues that two missing factors led to successful state-building but failed nation-building in Kosova: the balance of power and the ethnic elite. The author uses his unique expert knowledge gained over thirty years of study to present a thorough overview of international administration and nation-building in Kosova. Shinasi A. Rama is Clinical Professor of International Relations in the Department of Politics, New York University, USA. He served as Senior Political Advisor to the Prime Minister of the Interim Government of Kosova in the US. His research focuses on international relations and comparative politics Front Matter ....Pages i-x Introduction (Shinasi A. Rama)....Pages 1-57 The Security Syntheses and the Transformation of the Other into a Deadly Existential Threat (Shinasi A. Rama)....Pages 59-124 From Gandhian Pacifism and Communitarianism to the War and the Warlordism: The Adjustment of the Albanian Security Synthesis (Shinasi A. Rama)....Pages 125-156 Failed Negotiations, Intervention, and Ethnocide: The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of the Security Syntheses (Shinasi A. Rama)....Pages 157-185 Kosova as a Chessboard: The Centrality of the Balance of Power (Shinasi A. Rama)....Pages 187-214 International Pro-Consuls and Marginalized Élites: The Security Syntheses and the Élite Fight for Survival (Shinasi A. Rama)....Pages 215-240 The Prelude to the Elections: Power-sharing and the Failure of the Multiethnic Project (Shinasi A. Rama)....Pages 241-254 And the Dominant Cleavage Is ... Democracy, Nationalism, and the Triumph of the Security Syntheses (Shinasi A. Rama)....Pages 255-284 The Triumph of the Security Syntheses: Toward a Newborn, Yet Stillborn, National State (Shinasi A. Rama)....Pages 285-297 In Lieu of a Conclusion: Chasing Proteus—Deadly Existential Threats, the Security Synthesis, the Existential Entities, and the State (Shinasi A. Rama)....Pages 299-326 Back Matter ....Pages 327-344