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In
Exit Strategies and State Building, fifteen of the world's best scholars and practitioners of peace building focus on relevant historical and contemporary cases to provide a comprehensive overview of this issue. The book identifies four basic types of international operations where state-building has been a major objective--colonial administrations, peacekeeping operations, international administrations, and military occupations. Editor Richard Caplan and his contributors cover a variety of topics, from broad-ranging studies of exit in many types of state-building operations, to focused studies on specific historical cases, to thematic analyses under frameworks such as economics and global international relations. By examining the major challenges associated with the conclusion of international state-building operations and the requirements for the maintenance of peace in the period following exit, this book provides a unique perspective on the realities of military and political intervention. Given the twenty-first century trend toward international intervention the world over ,
Exit Strategies and State Building sheds more light on what is not merely an academic issue, but a pressing global policy concern.
List of contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Exit Strategies and State Building: Richard Caplan
- Colonial Administrations
- 2. Exit and Colonial Administrations: John Darwin
- 3. Senegal: Tony Chafer
- 4. Indonesia: Hendrik Spruyt
- Peace Support Operations
- 5. Exit and Peace Support Operations: William J. Durch
- 6. Sierra Leone: A. Sarjoh Bah
- 7. Haiti: Johanna Mendelson Forman
- International Administrations
- 8. Exit and International Administrations: Dominik Zaum
- 9. Kosovo: Ben Crampton
- 10. East Timor: Anthony Goldstone
- Military Occupations
- 11. Exit and Military Occupations: Gregory H. Fox
- 12. Gaza: Joel Peters
- 13. Iraq: Toby Dodge
- Thematic Issues
- 14. Competing Normative Visions of Exit: Ralph Wilde
- 15. The Political Economy of Exit: Michael Pugh
- 16. After Exit: The UN Peacebuilding Architecture: Richard Ponzio
- 17. Policy Implications: Richard Caplan
- Index
About the author
Richard Caplan is Professor of International Relations and Director of the Centre for International Studies at Oxford University. He also serves as a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Fragile States.
Summary
In Exit Strategies and State Building, fifteen of the world's best scholars and practitioners of peace building focus on relevant historical and contemporary cases to provide a comprehensive overview of this issue.
Additional text
Richard Caplan's book, Exit Strategies and State Building, is an important, thought-provoking, and compelling addition to what has become quite a substantial body of literature on international peace-building missions.
