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confronting the contradictions of postwar peace operations
Explores the contradictions that emerge in international statebuilding efforts in war-torn societies. This book argues that international efforts to construct effective, legitimate governmental structures in these countries are necessary but fraught with contradictions and vexing dilemmas. It draws on the research on postwar peace operations
1. Introduction : understanding the contradictions of postwar statebuilding -- 2. peacebuilder's contract : how external statebuilding reinforces weak statehood -- 3. Understanding the "coordination problem" in postwar statebuilding -- 4. Foreign militaries, sustainable institutions, and postwar statebuilding -- 5. Making peacemakers out of spoilers : international organizations, private military training, and statebuilding after war -- 6. Trajectories of accumulation through war and peace -- 7. superficiality of statebuilding in Cambodia : patronage and clientelism as enduring forms of politics -- 8. Postwar constitution building : opportunities and challenges -- 9. Pathways of the political : electoral processes after civil war -- 10. dangers of a tight embrace : externally assisted statebuilding in Afghanistan -- 11. Dilemmas of promoting "local ownership" : the case of postwar Kosovo -- 12. Statebuilding after Afghanistan and Iraq -- 13. Conclusion : confronting the contradictions
edited by Roland Paris and Timothy D Sisk
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