The theory and practice of Nation-Building: a case study of Kosovo independence

• Main Authors: Hsin-Chih Lee, 李幸枝
• Other Authors: 翁明賢
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/08812394948427777765

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 國際事務與戰略研究所碩士班 === 97 === “Nation Building” invariably involves intervention by an outside power in the internal workings of a state. Through the aids from other nations, international institutions, and NGOs, these institutions do hard work of trying to help dysfunctional or unstable states with the transition from post-conflict civil war to civil society. The tasks include: stabilizing the target country with the provision of humanitarian assistance, rebuilding the infrastructure, relieving disaster, developing economic, building self sustaining political institutions. Kosovo was once a land which inhabited by Serbs, but now is a land overwhelmingly populated by Albanians. The claims for the possession of Kosovo and the ethic contradictions remain the core problem between the Serbs and the Albanians. Since the dismemberment of Yugoslavia, the Kosovo independence movement has become enlarging the scale of their actions. The situation led Yugoslav President Milosevic to accelerate “ethnic cleansing” policy in Kosovo. After increasingly intense NATO bombing action, Milosevic accepted NATO’s conditions. UNSCR 1244(1999) prescribed arrangements for Kosovo’s post-conflict governance, establishing an UN-led international administration. In 2008, the Assembly of Kosovo’s Provisional Institutions of Self-Government held a session and it adopted a “declaration of independence,” which declared Kosovo an Independent and sovereign state. This study try to discuss how international societies do their efforts on helping a unstable or post-conflict country to build a peace and well-organized nation by case study of Kosovo. Not only describing the concepts and the theory of nation building, but also inspect the parallel between the theory and the practice process.