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
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 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
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 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
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 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
