Rentier Statebuilding in a Post‐Conflict Economy: The Case of Kosovo

Abstract

Kosovo has been under various forms of international administration since 1999. Although the political dimension of this international experience has been widely studied by scholars — especially those associated with the critical theory of liberal peacebuilding — the economic dimension of international rule has received less attention. This article explores the economic dimension by linking insights from rentier theory with critical approaches to liberal peacebuilding and statebuilding. The postulate informing this article is that the sources of a state's income have an impact on its institutional development. The article discusses liberal peacebuilding through the lens of rentier theory, it analyses the economic management in the early years of the international administration of Kosovo, and describes and explores some of the unintended consequences of this massive international presence in Kosovo for the local economy.

Kosovo-Eu Relations in the Context of the European Union Membership Process

“…Batı Balkan ülkelerine yönelik yapılandırılmış bir AB politikası ise ancak 1999'dan itibaren gündeme gelmiştir. AB, daha önce AB üyesi olan Orta ve Doğu Avrupa ülkelerinden farklı olarak Arnavutluk, Hırvatistan, Bosna Hersek, Kosova, Karadağ, Kuzey Makedonya ve Sırbistan'dan oluşan Batı Balkan ülkelerine yönelik olarak, (Schneider, 2009: 20;Lemay-Hebert & Murshed, 2016 ;Rexhepi, Sahiti, & Rullani, 2020: 12) 1997'de alınan bir Avrupa Konseyi kararı ile Kopenhag Kriterlerine ilaveten bir İstikrar ve Ortaklık Anlaşması imzalanması ön koşulunu kabul etmiştir (Leitão & Valente, 2020: 113). İstikrar ve Ortaklık Anlaşması, AB'nin bölgeye temel istikrarı getirme ve Batı Balkan ülkelerine Avrupa perspektifi sunma konusundaki ilk girişimidir (Dzihic & Wieser, 2008: 82).…”

Bribes, Rents and Industrial Firm Performance in Albania and Kosovo

“…Because of a strong focus on institution-building and anti-corruption, the WB-6 have attached relatively little important to promoting industrial development (Bartlett 2008). More recently, however, the donor community has woken up to the risks inherent in a growth model based primarily on aid-and remittance-driven consumption, calling on the WB-6 to launch new measures to strengthen and diversify their productive base (Lemay-Hebert and Murshed 2016;World Bank 2017). Industrialisation has long been regarded as an important engine of economic growth and social change (Szirmai 2012, Szirmai andVerspagen 2015).…”

Economic Recovery Mechanisms in Wartime

“…The theoretical and methodological basis for this study is the scientific work devoted to determining the peculiarities of the restoration of states that have had a similar experience of invasion of their territory by other countries. Thus, the work of political scientists and scholars who paid attention to the nature of military conflicts and the search for political solutions to them (Von Clausewitz, 2005;Yamazawa, 1990); scholars who studied the ways and means of rebuilding countries after armed conflicts and full-out war, studied their background, assessed their consequences and the available resources for reconstruction (see, for example, (Barakat & Kapisazovic, 2003;Tzifakis & Tsardanidis, 2006;Lemay-Hébert & Murshed, 2016). There is also potential for development in analyzing conceptual frameworks and practical cases to understand possible tools for post-war reconstruction (Aboushala & Haj Ismail, 2022) or technological cooperation in the defense industry as a factor of sustainable development (Holtström, 2022;Callado-Muñoz et al, 2022;Duginets & Nizheiko, 2022).…”