Statebuilding and State-Formation - The Political Sociology of Intervention

Informationen zum Autor Berit Bliesemann de Guevara is a researcher and lecturer in international relations at Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg. She co-authored Illusion Statebuilding (Hamburg 2010) and is assistant editor of the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding . Zusammenfassung This book examines the ways in which long-term processes of state-formation limit the possibilities for short-term political projects of statebuilding. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Statebuilding and State-Formation Part I: State-Formation, Violence and Political Economy 1. Risk and Externalisation in Afghanistan – Why Statebuilding Upends State-Formation 2. International Intervention and the Congolese Army: A Paradox of Intermediary Rule 3. War Makers and State Makers: On State-Formative Networks and Illiberal Political Economy in Kosovo 4. Georgia-South Ossetia Networks of Profit: Challenges to Statebuilding Part II: Governance, Legitimacy and Practice in Statebuilding and State-Formation 5. Statebuilding versus State-Formation in East Timor 6. The Limitations of International Analyses of the State and Post-Conflict Statebuilding in Sierra Leone 7. Statebuilding as Tacit Trusteeship: The Case of Liberia 8. The Road Less Travelled: Self-Led Statebuilding and International ‘Non-Intervention’ in the Creation of Somaliland Part III: The International Self- Statebuilders' Institutional Logics, Social Backgrounds and Subjectivities 9. Three Arenas: The Conflictive Logic of External Statebuilding 10. The International Scramble for Police Reform in the Balkans 11. The ‘Statebuilding Habitus’: UN Staff and the Cultural Dimension of Liberal Intervention in Kosovo 12. The International Self and the Humanitarianisation of Politics: A Case Study of Goma, DR Congo 13. The State We Are(n’t) In: Liminal Subjectivity in Aid Worker Auto-Biographies Conclusions: Neither Built nor Formed – the Transformation of States under International Intervention ...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Berit Bliesemann de Guevara
• Con la collaborazione di: Berit Bliesemann de Guevara (Editore), Berit (Aberystwyth University Bliesemann de Guevara (Editore), Bliesemann de Guevara Berit (Editore)
• Editore: Routledge Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 17.02.2012
• EAN: 9780415676977
• ISBN: 978-0-415-67697-7
• Dimensioni: 165 mm x 242 mm x 24 mm
• Serie: Routledge Studies in Intervention and Statebuilding; Routledge Studies in Intervention and Statebuilding
• Categorie: Saggistica; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, HISTORY / Military / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace, Warfare & defence, Peace studies and conflict resolution, Warfare and defence, International institutions, Peace studies & conflict resolution, Armed Conflict