Power-sharing, Decentralization and the Institutional Paradox

ISBN-13: 9783838399171 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 84 str.

Pellumb Kallaba

Opis

This book examines the new political structure of the newly independent Kosovo, particularly the ongoing asymmetric decentralization process - as envisaged in the Ahtisaari Plan. It seeks to analyze the impact of this process on the long-term stability and functionality of Kosovo. Because the policy of decentralization essentially tackles the very fundamental relations between the Albanian majority and the Serbian minority community in Kosovo, it has the ability to affect both intra-state and possibly also inter-state/regional stability. In this context, the author critically examine the ethnic regulation policy through power-sharing instruments in the post-independence Kosovo. He discusses the decentralization process in Kosovo as a case study of power-sharing arrangements; accordingly, the author used the existing knowledge about power-sharing as a conceptual/theoretical framework for the analysis of the Kosovo case.

O autorze

Mr. Pëllumb Kallaba has a degree in Joint European Master in Comparative Local Development from the University of Trento, the University of Ljubljana, the Corvinus University of Budapest and the University of Regensburg. Mr. Kallaba is currently working with the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, and as a researcher and consultant with civil society sector.