International-Led Statebuilding and Local Resistance contributes theoretical and empirical insights to the existing knowledge on the scope, challenges and results of post-conflict international state- and institution-building project focusing on post-war Kosovo.

Arolda Elbasani is a Visiting Scholar at the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies at NYU, USA, and Academic Supervisor for a project on new statehood, Kosovo Foundation for Open Society. Her research interests and publications lie at the intersection of Foreign Policy, Promotion of Rule of Law, Post-Conflict Statebuilding and Islam and Religious Pluralism with a focus on Southeast Europe and Turkey.

1. State-building or state-capture? Institutional exports, local reception and hybridity of reforms in post-war Kosovo Arolda Elbasani 2. Explaining municipal governance in Kosovo: local agency, credibility and party patronage David Jackson 3. State-building and patronage networks: how political parties embezzled the bureaucracy in post-war Kosovo Katarina Tadic and Arolda Elbasani 4. Implementing Brussels Agreements: the EU's facilitating strategy and contrasting local perceptions of peace in Kosovo Cemaliye Beysoylu 5. 'The association that dissociates' - narratives of local political resistance in Kosovo and the delayed implementation of the Brussels Agreement Miruna Troncota 6. Education for whom? Engineering multiculturalism and liberal peace in post-conflict Kosovo Ervjola Selenica 7. Statehood without an army: the question of the Kosovo Armed Force Giorgos Triantafyllou 8. The role of epistemic communities: local think tanks, international practitioners and security sector reform in Kosovo Jacob Phillipps 9. Salafi pluralism in national contexts: the secular state, nation and militant Islamism in Kosovo, Albania, and Macedonia Shpend Kursani