ABSTRACT
In the context of a fragile political and security situation, an ambiguous legal constitutional status and an imprecise and contested balance of power between international ‘protection’ and local ownership, academic and practitioner strategies in Kosovo have emphasized human protection, military security and public law and order. However, Kosovo is also a site of contention between economic norms. On the one hand, the external agencies have attempted to impose a neoliberal economic model, rooted in the 1989 Washington consensus on developmentalism. On the other hand, Kosovars have clung to clientism, shadow economic activities and resistance to centrally audited exchange.
