7.5 mm Volume 18 VOLUME 18 NUMBER 2 Southeast European and Black Sea Studies Southeast European and Black Sea Studies JUNE 2018 Special Issue: External Governance of State-Building in Post-Conlict Kosovo Guest Editor: Arolda Elbasani CONTENTS 165 State-building and patronage networks: how political parties embezzled the bureaucracy in post-war Kosovo Katarina Tadi and Arolda Elbasani 185 Implementing Brussels Agreements: the EU’s facilitating strategy and contrasting local perceptions of peace in Kosovo Cemaliye Beysoylu 203 ‘he association that dissociates’ – narratives of local political resistance in Kosovo and the delayed implementation of the Brussels Agreement Miruna Troncot 219 Education for whom? Engineering multiculturalism and liberal peace in post-conlict Kosovo Ervjola Selenica 239 Statehood without an army: the question of the Kosovo Armed Force Giorgos Triantafyllou 261 he role of epistemic communities: local think tanks, international practitioners and security sector reform in Kosovo Jacob Phillipps 281 Salai pluralism in national contexts: the secular state, nation and militant Islamism in Kosovo, Albania, and Macedonia Shpend Kursani 301 Book Reviews 319 FBSS_COVER_18-02.indd 1 Southeast European and Black Sea Studies June 2018 Articles Explaining municipal governance in Kosovo: local agency, credibility and party patronage David Jackson ISSN 1468-3857 Number 2 149 June 2018 Volume 18 Introduction State-building or state-capture? 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