Critical Review of the Icg Report Will the Real Serbia Please Stand Up?
Critical Review of the Icg Report Will the Real Serbia Please Stand Up?

Author: Michel Figusch

Publisher: GRIN Verlag

Published: 2009-12

Total Pages: 37

ISBN-13: 3640483790

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Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: International Organisations, grade: 1, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen (Institut für Politikwissenschaften), course: Crisis in Eastern Europe and the EU's response, language: English, abstract: This term paper critically reviews the International Crisis Group report "Will the Real Serbia Please Stand up?" from April 2008. The report was published two months after Kosovo declared its independence and the subsequent rioting and looting in Belgrade. Section 2 briefly introduces the ICG and presents two main criticisms which concern the institution's organisational structure as well as its reports. In Section 3.1 I will summarise the situation in Serbia according to the above-named report and portray the conflicts about the Kosovo-question and Serbia's EU-membership. The two opposing camps of pro-EU and anti-EU-parties will be presented and the viewpoints of their respective leaders Tadic and Kostunica will be discussed. As the report was published before the early election in May 2008, Section 3 will be complemented with the outcome of it and an analysis of the results. What follows is an analysis of ICG's issues of concern and the resultant policy recommendations; in particular the recommendation to the European Union not to sign a Stability and Association Agreement with Serbia. Section 4 will summarise the paper and add concluding remarks.

International Intervention and State-making
International Intervention and State-making

Author: Selver B. Sahin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-07-16

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 1317674715

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This book analyses the changing dynamics of sovereignty resulting from contemporary international state-building interventions. It aims to highlight how the exercise of ‘exceptional’ forms of power by intervening agencies impacts on the sovereign capacity of intervened states. Drawing upon in-depth analyses of three case studies – Kosovo, East Timor and the Kurdistan Regional Government, the book shifts the focus of the debate to the nature of contemporary intervention as an act of statemaking, and argues that foreign intervention changes the dynamics of political power upon which sovereignty is structured. At the same time, it reveals how intervention reproduces the imposed conditions of international state-making, thus permanently internalising external regulatory mechanisms. International intervention, in other words, becomes the constitutive element of governance in the newly created state. This book will be of much interest to students of statebuilding, war and conflict studies, global governance, security studies and IR.

Business of Civil War
Business of Civil War

Author: Patience Kabamba

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 2869785526

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Within the context of the absence of effective state sovereignty and the presence of numerous armed struggles for power, Nande traders have managed to build and protect self-sustaining, prosperous, transnational economic enterprises in eastern Congo. This book discusses the commercial enterprises of the Nande trust networks and the subsequent transnational community they have produced, thereby challenging the assumption that a "weak state" or a "failed state" or even a "collapsed state" can be presumed to signal a "failed" society. It demonstrates the fact that several sovereignties and property right systems can coexist side by side, reinforcing each other - an idea which seems inconceivable for those with a normative view of governmental institutions and state sovereignty. Rethinking the question of African state formation, the study contributes to the formulation of a more rigorously transnational and local paradigms in the study of post-colonial African state formations. It constitutes an original contribution to critical theory of societal responses to processes of state implosion, and the anthropology of new social formations that emerge when states disintegrate, especially in war-torn Africa. The book also discusses issues related to the dynamics of conflict, new state formation, transnational trade network, ethnicity, and global political and economic governance. In the midst of abundant anti-ethnic literature on African studies, this study posits that there may be a renewed usefulness and necessity in theorizing the salience and continuing production of 'ethnic' differences in a manner that challenges the notion of ethnicity as merely a devious and divisive invention of colonialism that must simply be overcome.

National Secession
National Secession

Author: Philip G. Roeder

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2018-10-15

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 1501725998

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European Security
European Security

Author: Bjørn Møller

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-22

Total Pages: 581

ISBN-13: 1317139356

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Europe has undergone quite profound changes since the end of the Cold War. Having been a highly militarised, conflict-ridden and war-ridden region, the core of Europe today constitutes a security community where armed conflicts among the constituent states has become inconceivable. This comprehensive book offers a theoretically founded and thoroughly documented analysis of European security, with a special emphasis on the role played by the United Nations and the various regional and sub-regional organisations, especially the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the Council of Europe and the European Union. When it comes to explaining peace in Europe opinions differ widely. Some argue that it was only because the West refused to give in to Soviet threats that the latter eventually gave up; or that the 'long peace' in Europe was due to the combination of a bipolar alliance structure, pitting the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) against the Warsaw Pact, with the presence of nuclear weapons on both sides. Others point instead to the extraordinarily dense network of international institutions and organisations in Europe, offering a wide panoply of fora in which to handle disputes peacefully; or to the web of interdependence in economic and other affairs, tying together all states in Europe in relations which militate strongly against war. Still others believe that the external peace between the states in Europe is simply a reflection of a convergence of cultures, democracies with marked economies that are open towards the world market. These questions are the focal point of this book, which concentrates on security, albeit not in the sense of being a treatise on military matters, but security obtainable by much more indirect and non-military means. It will be required reading for all students and scholars of European security and the organisations which underpin it.

Intra-State Conflict, Governments and Security
Intra-State Conflict, Governments and Security

Author: Stephen M. Saideman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2008-05-29

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1134045042

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This volume seeks to understand the central role of governments in intra-state conflicts.The book explores how the government in any society plays two pivotal roles: as a deterrent against those who would use violence; and as a potential danger to the society. These roles come into conflict with each other, as those governments that can best deter

You, the People
You, the People

Author: Simon Chesterman

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9780199284009

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The governance of post-conflict territories embodies a central contradiction - how does one help a population prepare for democratic governance and the rule of law by imposing a form of benevolent autocracy? This book explores the transitional administrations put in place by the UN.

Hot Spot: North America and Europe
Hot Spot: North America and Europe

Author: Joseph R. Rudolph Jr.

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2008-06-30

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13: 0313055653

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Even in the relatively serene world of North America and Western Europe, numerous conflicts with the propensity for sustained political violence are carried out by domestic groups with alarming regularity. This in-depth volume explores conflicts and potential hot spot areas in these regions, from anti-globalization protests to immigration politics to the Basque provinces and the ETA. Coverage is divided into three regions—the established democracies of the U.S., Canada, and Western Europe; the democratizing countries of post-communist Europe; and the more volatile region encompassing Russia, the Balkans, the Causasus, and Post-Soviet Eastern Europe—for a greater understanding of geographic interrelationships. This comprehensive volume is a first-stop reference source for the most significant political, cultural, and economic conflicts in North America and Europe today.