After Liberal Peace? From Failed State-Building to an Emancipatory Peace in Kosovo | Zendy

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After Liberal Peace? From Failed State-Building to an Emancipatory Peace in Kosovo

Author(s) -

Gëzim Visoka,

Oliver P. Richmond

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

international studies perspectives

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.493

H-Index - 45

eISSN - 1528-3585

pISSN - 1528-3577

DOI - 10.1093/isp/ekw006

Subject(s) - state (computer science) , political science , pluralism (philosophy) , hostility , political economy , law , sociology , public administration , computer science , medicine , clinical psychology , philosophy , epistemology , algorithm

Attempts to build a liberal peace and a concurrent neoliberal state in Kosovo have not managed to produce a sustainable and emancipatory peace. Instead, they have produced a local and negative hybrid peace that has been co-opted by the dynamics of local state formation and state contestation. These dynamics have overshadowed a meaningful transition from ethnic hostility to sustainable peace that should encompass pluralism, security, law, rights, and liberal institutions. This article examines this emergence of a negative hybrid peace and explores the prospects for a more emancipatory peace based on a local pro-peace infrastructure that avoids the pitfalls of liberal peace in practice.

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