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In most post-conflict countries nongovernmental organizations are everywhere, but their presence is misunderstood. In The NGO Game Patrice McMahon investigates the unintended outcomes of what she calls the NGO boom in Bosnia and Kosovo.
Patrice C. McMahon is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Nebraska. She is the author of Taming Ethnic Hatred, coauthor of American Exceptionalism Reconsidered and coeditor of several books, including most recently State Responses to Human Security.
"The NGO Game is a major contribution to our understanding of post-conflict interventions, democratization, and peacebuilding, as well as the specific cases of Bosnia and Kosovo. Patrice C. McMahon looks beyond what international NGOs and peacebuilding efforts claim to accomplish to get at what is actually happening on the ground. Her work shows us how and why these efforts fail by exploring in detail the activities of international NGOs, the resulting responses on the part of local societies and local NGOs, and the consequences of those actions."
Paula M. Pickering, Associate Professor, Department of Government, College of William & Mary:
"The NGO Game provides a well-grounded and compelling argument. Patrice McMahon uses her deep knowledge of the Balkans to show how the NGO boom created during post-conflict interventions ironically distorts local civil society in ways that undermine and weaken indigenous groups. The book offers important lessons for students, scholars, and practitioners of civil society and peacebuilding."
Sabrina P. Ramet, author of The Three Yugoslavias: State-Building and Legitimation, 1918-2005:
"Patrice McMahon has written a spectacular book, taking the reader behind the scenes in the world of NGOs. Based on extensive fieldwork in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo, McMahon shows how foreign funders came to these post-conflict zones thinking that they knew better than locals what would be most helpful in these societies, and proceeded to pump money into NGOs, mostly newly created, which were prepared to do the funders’ bidding. Because they largely ignored local priorities and, moreover, constantly shifted their own priorities, the funders actually had a negative impact both in Bosnia and, more particularly, in Kosovo, where they succeeded in undermining the nascent NGO sector. Anyone interested in post-conflict peace-building and efforts at democratization, especially in the context of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo, will be richly rewarded by this fascinating study."
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