This dissertation's hypothesis argues that state-building and development are processes that
to function successfully must be positioned in a complementary interrelationship. This
argument has arisen in response to contemporary approaches to state-building and development
that are too narrow so that state-building strategies are often reduced to the establishment
of political institutions to the exclusion of other equally necessary structures that include
economic social and even cultural concerns in the same sense development strategies
frequently focus on the support and establishment of selected economic structures at the
exclusion of political cultural and social dimensions. Furthermore a necessary prerequisite
for long-term stability is a guarantee of individual and collective security and the state
requires in its establishment and development this aspect in all of its institutions. By
taking as a case study the intervention of UNMIK and the EU in Kosovo the author attempts to
show how state-building and development processes are interrelated and how they might best be
applied in the field in order to achieve sustainable outcomes. State-building is defined as the
building of state structures which are role- and rule-oriented institutions within political
economic social and cultural domains. Development is used in this work to identify the process
responsible for making these structures sustainable over time. In the case of Kosovo in
addition to the examination of the structures this study examines the role of actors
participating in these processes - local and international actors - and their potential
alliances coalitions and conflicts. Beyond these concerns the aspect of security especially
the rule of law is to be considered as the main precondition for undertaking any action in the
aforementioned domains. From the theoretical-methodical perspective this work falls under the
category of Policy Analysis. The new analytical model presented here will identify the
significant variables for the examination of the case study and after this theoretical model
has been applied in the empirical section of this work it will then serve in the end to
estimate the main findings in the case of Kosovo. In this manner the author hopes to contribute
to the ongoing discussion on state-building and development theories and practice through two
parallel aims: one goal is to illustrate and call attention to the low level of necessary
dialogue between the two discourses of state-building and development theories while the other
means to show the benefit of the combined utility of this approach at the empirical level where
implementation of policies takes place. The theoretical approach is wide-ranging and holistic
while the empirical part of this study will examine broadly and eventually apply
multidimensional concepts of development and state-building.
