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Political economy of statebuilding : power after peace / edited by Mats Berdal and Dominik Zaum.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge studies in intervention and statebuilding ; 11.
- Routledge Studies in Intervention and Statebuilding ; 11
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nation-building.
- Postwar reconstruction.
- Nation-building--Case studies.
- Postwar reconstruction--Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (812 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume examines and evaluates the impact of international statebuilding interventions on the political economy of conflict-affected countries over the past 20 years. It focuses on countries that are emerging, or have recently emerged, from periods of war and protracted conflict. The interventions covered fall into three broad categories:international administrations and transformative occupations (East Timor, Iraq, and Kosovo); complex peace operations (Afghanistan, Burundi, Haiti, and Sudan); governance and statebuilding programmes
- Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Power after peace; PART I A political economy perspective on selected statebuilding practices; 2 Statebuilding and the limits of constitutional design; 3 Elections and post-conflict political development; 4 Transition from war to peace: Stratification, inequality and post-war economic reconstruction; 5 Private and public interests: Informal actors, informal influence, and economic order after war; 6 Statebuilding and corruption: A political economy perspective
- 7 Statebuilding and the political economy of the extractive industries in post-conflict statesPART II Approaches to statebuilding; 8 The United Nations and international statebuilding after the Cold War; 9 The IFIs and post-conflict political economy; 10 Regional approaches to statebuilding I: The European Union; 11 Regional approaches to statebuilding II: The African Union and ECOWAS; PART III Case studies; 12 Back to the future: The failure to reform the post-war political economy of Iraq; 13 Building a state and 'statebuilding': East Timor and the UN, 1999-2012
- 14 The political economy of statebuilding in Kosovo15 From new dawn to quicksand: The political economy of statebuilding in Afghanistan; 16 The political economy of statebuilding in Burundi; 17 The political economy of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in Sudan; 18 The political economy of statebuilding in Haiti: Informal resistance to security-first statebuilding; 19 Georgia and the political economy of statebuilding; 20 How the EU and the US stopped a war and nobody noticed: The containment of the Macedonian conflict and EU soft power; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed May 15, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 1-136-23448-9
- 0-203-10130-8
- 1-136-23449-7
- 9780203101308
- OCLC:
- 845254208
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