This book examines international engagement with Kosovo since NATO's intervention in 1999, and looks at the three distinct phases of Kosovo's development; intervention, statebuilding and independence.

Aidan Hehir is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Westminster.

1. Introduction: Kosovo and the International Community Aidan Hehir 2. Responding to Kosovo's Call for Humanitarian Intervention: Public Opinion, Partisanship, and Policy Objectives Alynna J. Lyon and Mary Fran T. Malone 3. Kosovo and the Advent of Sovereignty as Responsibility Alex Bellamy 4. Conflicting Rules: Global Constitutionalism and the Kosovo Intervention Anthony F. Lang, Jr 5. De Facto States in the Balkans: Shared Governance versus Ethnic Sovereignty in Republika Srpska and Kosovo Rick Fawn and Oliver P. Richmond 6. Policing the State of Exception in Kosovo Barry J. Ryan 7. Explaining the International Administration's Failures in the Security and Justice Areas Giovanna Bono 8. Kosovo - The Final Frontier? From Transitional Administration to Transitional Statehood James Gow 9. Kosovo, Sovereignty and the Subversion of UN Authority James Kerr-Lindsey 10. Microcosm, Guinea Pig or Sui Generis? Assessing International Engagement with Kosovo Aidan Hehir. Appendix: Interview with Dr Fatmir Sejdiu, President of the Republic of Kosovo