This book examines the practices in Western and local spheres of humanitarian intervention, and shows how the divide between these spheres helps to perpetuate Western involvement.Using the Democratic
This book traces and conceptualises the changing notion of democracy and demonstrates how democracy promotion finds itself at the heart of contemporary international discourses and policies.Democracy
This book provides theoretical clarity about the concepts of failed and fragile states, which have emerged strongly since the 9/11 attacks. Recent contributions often see the fragile state as either a
This book contributes to current debates on the protection of human rights in the 21st Century.With the global economic collapse, the rise of the BRICS, the post-intervention chaos in Libya, the migra
This book examines the dynamics of security provision in international interventions in post-conflict states, in order to better understand the interactions between international actors implementing i
The book examines the dynamics between domestic and international statebuilding actors. While the dynamics between "local" and "international" statebuilding actors have been previously theorised throu
This book offers an analysis of the changing dynamics of sovereignty resulting from international interventions in fragile states, demonstrating the symbiotic relationship between foreign interveners
This book contributes to current debates on the protection of human rights in the 21st Century.With the global economic collapse, the rise of the BRICS, the post-intervention chaos in Libya, the migra
This book offers a comparative, micro-level study of the impact of local legitimacy on local actor’s reasons for compliance with or resistance to international peacebuilding reforms. Specifically, the
This edited volume empirically maps and theorises NATO-ISAF’s contribution to peacebuilding and reconstruction in Afghanistan. The book provides a contextual framework of the NATO participation in Afg
Emerging from an October 2010 conference held at Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts), this book contains 10 contributions from US-based senior-level policymakers and academics. A sampling of topics:
"This book examines the ways in which long-term processes of state-formation limit the possibilities for short-term political projects of statebuilding. Using process-oriented approaches, the authors
This book examines international engagement with Kosovo since NATO’s intervention in 1999, and looks at the three distinct phases of Kosovo’s development; intervention, statebuilding and independence.
This volume examines and evaluates the impact of international statebuilding interventions on the political economy of post-conflict countries over the past 20 years. While statebuilding today is typi
This book explores the last 25 years of international peacebuilding and recasts them as a growing crisis of confidence in universal ideas of peacebuilding and self-government.
This volume connects the study of statebuilding to broader aspects of social theory and the historical study of the state, bringing forth new questions and starting-points, both academically and pract
This book presents a new framework of analysis to assess the antecedents, process and consequences of natural and man-made disasters and humanitarian crises, and the feasibility of their respective in
This volume examines and evaluates the impact of international statebuilding interventions on the political economy of conflict-affected countries over the past 20 years. It focuses on countries that
This edited book sets out and engages with some of the key policies, practices and paradigms of external intervention in the case of state support and reconstruction. Many assumptions about statebuild
This book explores how and why police reform became an international phenomenon in the era of statebuilding that followed the end of the Cold War.Police reform has become an indispensible element in t
This volume examines international statebuilding in terms of language and meanings, rather than focusing narrowly on current policy practices.After two decades of evolution towards more ‘integrated,’
This book provides a critical examination of the process of statebuilding by the EU through its institutions and Member States, focusing the cases of the Western Balkan states. The EU is now viewed as
This book interrogates the common perception that liberal peace is in crisis and raises (and answers) the question: can the local turn save liberal peacebuilding?
This book examines the regime changes in Iraq and Libya to unravel the complexity of statebuilding in countries emerging from under the shadow of authoritarianism and conflict in the Middle East
This book offers a state-of-the-art examination of peacemaking, looking at its theoretical assumptions, empirical applications and its consequences. Despite the wealth of research on external interven
This book examines the practices in Western and local spheres of humanitarian intervention, and shows how the divide between these spheres helps to perpetuate Western involvement.Using the Democratic
This book examines international efforts to provide security in post-conflict sites and explains why internal security should be given precedence in statebuilding endeavours.The work begins by explori
This edited volume critically examines the widely supported doctrine of the 'Responsibility to Protect', and investigates the claim that it embodies progressive values in international politics. Since
This book introduces ‘peace figuration’ as a concept offers a critique of and constructs a new framework for analysing peacebuilding practices in a long-term perspective.The analytical framework of pe
