Statebuilding and State-Formation : The Political Sociology of Intervention

ISBN-13: 9780415676977 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 288 str.

Berit Bliesemann De Guevara

Opis

This book examines the ways in which long-term processes of state-formation limit the possibilities for short-term political projects of statebuilding.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.