Civil Society and Transitions in the Western Balkans

1. Introduction: Civil Society and Multiple Transitions - Meanings, Actors and Effects
Denisa Kostovicova, Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic

Part I. State-Building

2. The European Commission, Enlargement Policy and Civil Society in the Western Balkans
John O’Brennan

3. Civil Society and ‘Good Governance’ in Bosnia- Herzegovina and Serbia: An Assessment of EU Assistance and Intervention
Adam Fagan

4. Contesting the Rule of Law: Civil Society and Legal Institutions
Iavor Rangelov

5. A Practitioner’s Perspective
Giulio Venneri

Part II. Democratisation

6. Democratisation through Defiance? The Albanian Civil Organisation ‘Self-Determination’ and International Supervision in Kosovo
Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers

7. Nationalism and Civil Society Organisations in Post-Independence Kosovo
Francesco Strazzari, Ervjola Selenica

8. The Diaspora Dilemma: Croatian- American Civil Society Institutions and their Political Role in the Democratisation of the Homeland
Anita Brkanić

9. From Post-Communist to Uncivil Society in Macedonia
Nenad Marković

10. A Practitioner’s Perspective: Post-Conflict Civil Society Development in the Balkans
Joanna Hanson

Part III. Post-Conflict Reconstruction

11. Civil Society and the Bosnian Police Certification Process: Challenging ‘the Guardians’
Gemma Collantes-Celador

12. The Paradox of Demobilising a Civil Protection Actor: Build-Up and Stand-Down of the KPC in Kosovo
Jens Narten

13. Serbian Civil Society as an Exclusionary Space: NGOs, the Public and ‘Coming to Terms with the Past’
Jelena Obradović-Wochnik

14. Facing the Past while Disregarding the Present? Human Rights NGOs and Truth-Telling in Post-Milošević Serbia
Mladen Ostojić

15. A Practitioner’s Perspective
Florence Hartmann

16. Conclusion
James Ker-Lindsay

Nyckelord: Political Science and International Relations, European Politics, Russian and Post-Soviet Politics, Development Policy, Political Science, Political History, Peace Studies