The dilemmas of statebuilding [ 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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, UK. :
Routledge ,
c2009
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| Series: | Security and governance series
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| Online Access: | NetLibrary |
Table of Contents:
- 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