Introduction
Methodology and the Study of State-Building in the Western Balkans
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2953380 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susan L Woodward (0000-0001-8520-9820, London School of Economics and Political Science, corresponding author), D Kostovicova (0000-0002-6243-4379, London School of Economics and Political Science), Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic (0000-0002-7831-9316, London School of Economics and Political Science) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 467-469 |
| Publication date | 2012-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Southeast European Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2701-8199 • E-ISSN: 2701-8202 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/soeu-2012-600404 |
| OpenAlex | W4299667326 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
The academic literature on state-building has focused largely on actual policies and practices and how to understand its challenges and improve on practice. Particularly salient recently is the relation between external actors and local resistance. In its course, this literature and its practitioners are implicitly developing a field of scholarly study, as a community of researchers focusing on post-conflict countries and asking a set of questions about what works and does not to create a sustainable peace. What is missing thus far to make it a clearly articulated and recognized field of academic study, we suggest, is discussion and elaboration of a specific methodology. How does one study state-building interventions? This special issue, on state-building interventions in the Western Balkans, aims to fill that vacuum in the academic literature with contributions from scholars doing research on international state-building interventions in the Western Balkans by asking them to discuss their methodological approach and research questions for which they had to think methodologically. No canon will emerge because one of the great qualities of this research is its interdisciplinarity, but making methods and issues of methods explicit should make a major contribution to the development of this field of study, not just on the Western Balkans but generally. Without that, knowledge from each particular piece of research does not combine and accumulate, and the critical analysis of what we have learned and why and what new questions emerge that is essential to that accumulation of knowledge cannot take place
Algorithm · Architectural engineering · Geography · Political science · Regional science · State (computer science · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Computer Science · Engineering · Peacebuilding and International Security · Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |