Quadratic nexus” and the process of democratization and state-building in Albania and Kosovo

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Datos Bibliográficos

ID11047962
AutoresGëzim Krasniqi (0000-0002-3124-9816, University of Edinburgh, autor de correspondencia)
Año2013
Volumen41
Número3
Páginas395-411
Fecha de publicación2013-05-01
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaNationalities Papers (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0090-5992 • E-ISSN: 1465-3923
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1080/00905992.2012.743515
OpenAlexW2040785627
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas14

This paper examines the interplay between internal and external actors in the process of democratization and state-building in Albania and Kosovo. It does so by using David J. Smith's “quadratic nexus” that links Brubaker's “triadic nexus” – nationalizing states, national minorities and external national homelands – to the institutions of an ascendant and expansive “Euro-Atlantic space”. The main argument of this paper is twofold. First, it argues the nexus remains a useful framework in the study of state-and nation-building provided that it moves beyond the “civic vs. ethnic” dichotomy. Today, many states with a mixture of civic and multi-ethnic elements involve this relational nexus. Second, while comparing Albania and Kosovo, this paper argues that all the four elements of the nexus have a different impact on the process of state- and nation-building and their relationship is more conflictual in Kosovo than in Albania

Argument (complex analysis · Democracy · Democratization · Economic system · Economics · Ethnic group · Nexus (standard · Pillar · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Engineering · Law · Mathematics · Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics · Turkey's Politics and Society

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