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“Quadratic nexus” and the process of democratization and state-building in Albania and Kosovo: a comparison

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Gëzim Krasniqi
Gëzim Krasniqi*
Affiliation:
School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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∗Email: G.Krasniqi@ed.ac.uk
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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.

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quadratic nexusinternal actorsexternal actorsAlbaniaGreeceKosovoSerbia
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Nationalities Papers , Volume 41 , Issue 3: Special Issue: Europeanization, State-Building and Democratization in the Western Balkans , May 2013 , pp. 395 - 411
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Copyright © 2013 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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