@article{0e5e4a5bd24e4777864983a33f6720ad,
title = "How (not) to export civil society: Do we know how yet? Insider perspectives on international democracy promotion in the Western Balkans",
author = "Keith Brown",
note = "Funding Information: Th is set of essays is one outcome from an extended set of collaborative research projects based at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, and funded by the United States Institute of Peace, the Mott Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the National Council for East European and Eurasian Studies (NCEEER) and IREX. We have adopted the term muabet to identify the project — taking the word in its sense of relaxed conversation, embodying collaboration, partnership and civility.2 The process began with an initiative launched back in early 2000, by a group of ethnographically-oriented scholars who shared a concern with the pragmatics and the ethics of international intervention in the former Yugoslavia. Back then, it was just five years since the US and EU brokered peace talks at Dayton had brought an end to the armed conflict in Bosnia-Hercegovina, three years since the OSCE had established a {\textquoteleft}Presence{\textquoteright} in Albania to restore order, and less than twelve months since NATO had launched its air campaign against Serbia, with the stated goal of ending state-sponsored violence against Kosova{\textquoteright}s Albanian population. All these transformative interventions demanded the costly deployment of armed, foreign troops in the region: but they also involved parallel, civilian-led efforts in the region to assist, promote, or consolidate the emergence of democratic institutions. Various agencies, including governments and non-governmental organizations, from outside the region and within, as well as substantial resources, were engaged in this process, in which civil society was a particular focus: and we felt their energies called for serious study.3",
year = "2009",
month = jul,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1163/187633309X421139",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "33",
pages = "1--25",
journal = "Southeastern Europe",
issn = "0094-4467",
publisher = "Brill",
number = "1",
}