{"product_id":"local-legitimacy-in-peacebuilding","title":"Local Legitimacy in Peacebuilding","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book analyses the role of legitimacy in explaining local actors’ compliance with international peacebuilding operations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book provides a comparative, micro-level study of local actors’ reasons for compliance with or resistance to international peacebuilding. Specifically, it analyses three pathways to compliance –legitimacy, coercion, and reward-seeking – to explore local police officers’ compliance with the reforms stipulated by the EU Police Mission in Bosnia and the EU Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo. The work constructs a holistic framework of the mechanisms connecting each pathway to compliance and measures legitimacy using micro-level indicators. This study not only shines light on the question why local actors comply, a crucial factor in mission effectiveness, but it also illuminates exactly how compliance works. The book contributes nuanced evidence about the often-heralded importance of legitimacy in peacebuilding, showing exactly in which situations local legitimacy matters and in which it does not. It is also highly relevant for policy-makers as it unpacks and explains the mechanisms behind local legitimacy, assisting in understanding this usually nebulous concept. This book demonstrates the need for micro-level analysis by revealing the relevant processes of legitimation usually hidden behind commonly perceived social fault lines, such as the Serb-Albanian divide in Kosovo.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book will be of much interest to students of peacebuilding, war and conflict studies, Balkans politics, security studies and International Relations.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54235559264600,"sku":"9781138045873","price":192.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781138045873.jpg?v=1777266032","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/local-legitimacy-in-peacebuilding","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}