Statebuilding and state-formation : the political sociology of intervention / edited by Berit Bliesemann de Guevara.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bliesemann de Guevara, Berit.

Series:

Routledge studies in intervention and statebuilding

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nation-building.

Political sociology.

Intervention (International law).

Physical Description:

xv, 270 pages : map ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

Summary:

"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 explore what happens when conscious efforts at statebuilding 'meet' social contexts, and are transformed into daily routines. In order to explain their findings, they also analyse the temporally and spatially broader structures of world society which shape the possibilities of statebuilding. Statebuilding and State Formation includes a variety of case studies from post-conflict societies in Africa, Asia and Europe, as well as the headquarters and branch offices of international agencies. Drawing on various theoretical approaches from sociology and anthropology, the contributors discuss external interventions as well as self-led statebuilding projects. This edited volume is divided into three parts: - Part I: State Formation, Violence and Political Economy - Part II: Governance, Legitimacy and Practice in Statebuilding and State-Formation - Part III: The International Self - Statebuilders' Institutional Logics, Social Backgrounds and Subjectivities The book will be of great interest to students of statebuilding and intervention, war and conflict studies, international security and IR"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I State-formation, violence and political economy 21

1 Risk and externalisation in Afghanistan: why statebuilding upends state-formation / Florian P. Kühn Kühn, Florian P. 23

2 International intervention and the Congolese army: a paradox of intermediary rule / Alex Veit Veit, Alex 40

3 War makers and state makers: on state-formative networks and illiberal political economy in Kosovo / Jens Stilhoff Sorensen Sorensen, Jens Stilhoff 57

4 Georgia-South Ossetia networks of profit: challenges to statebuilding / Stacy Closson Closson, Stacy 74

Part II Governance, legitimacy and practice in statebuilding and state-formation 93

5 Statebuilding versus state-formation in East Timor / Lee Jones Jones, Lee 95

6 The limitations of international analyses of the state and post-conflict statebuilding in Sierra Leone / Christof P. Kurz Kurz, Christof P. 114

7 Statebuilding as tacit trusteeship: the case of Liberia / Louise Riis Andersen Andersen, Louise Riis 132

8 The road less travelled: self-led statebuilding and international 'non-intervention' in the creation of Somaliland / Rebecca Richards Richards, Rebecca 149

Part III The international self-statebuilders' institutional logics, social backgrounds and subjectivities 165

9 Three arenas: the conflictive logic of external statebuilding / Alex Veit Veit, Alex, Klaus Schlichte Schlichte, Klaus 167

10 The international scramble for police reform in the Balkans / Stephan Hensell Hensell, Stephan 182

11 The 'statebuilding habitus': UN staff and the cultural dimension of liberal intervention in Kosovo / Catherine Goetze Goetze, Catherine, Berit Bliesemann De Guevara Guevara, Berit Bliesemann De 198

12 The international self and the humanitarianisation of politics: a case study of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo / Kai Koddenbrock Koddenbrock, Kai 214

13 The state we are(n't) in: liminal subjectivity in aid worker auto-biographies / Lisa Smirl Smirl, Lisa 230.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415676977

0415676975

9780203123935

020312393X

OCLC:

706022556