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- Title
“Quadratic nexus” and the process of democratization and state-building in Albania and Kosovo: a comparison.
- Authors
Krasniqi, Gëzim
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
NATION building; STATE formation; DEMOCRATIZATION; KOSOVO (Republic) politics &; government; ALBANIAN politics &; government; INTERNATIONAL relations; INTERNATIONAL relations theory
- Publication
Nationalities Papers, 2013, Vol 41, Issue 3, p395
- ISSN
0090-5992
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.1080/00905992.2012.743515