This special issue contains papers on international development interventions that offer support to justice and security reforms in so-called "fragile states." Following an introduction by guest editor Helene Maria Kyed, the book includes papers on: justice and security architecture in Africa * reconfiguring state and non-state actors in the provision of safety in (South) Africa - implications for bottom-up policing arrangements and for donor funding * the consequences of ideals-oriented rule of law policy-making in Liberia * the politics of customary law ascertainment in South Sudan * hybrid...

The contributions in this volume include the following: a reconsideration of the work of a number of writers - Heinrich Popitz, Theodor Geiger, Christian Sigrist, and, above all, Max Weber - who have received particularly critical attention from adherents of legal pluralism, arguing for further discussion of the concept of law developed by Franz von Benda-Beckmann * the dynamic nature of interactions among plural legal systems, employing theories of legal pluralism to identify sources of legal plurality and to understand how these interact in Malaysia * why, in the Democratic Republic of...