New agendas in statebuilding
Subtitle: hybridity, contingency and history
By: edited by Robert Egnell and Peter Haldén
Series: Routledge studies in intervention and statebuilding
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780415660716; 9780203073872
Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Human Rights; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General; Social aspects; Peace-building; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / General; Nation-building
Description: "This volume connects the study of statebuilding to broader aspects of social theory and the historical study of the state, bringing forth new questions and starting-points, both academically and practically, for the field. Building states has become a highly prioritized issue in international politics. Since the 1990s, mainly Western countries and international institutions have invested large sums of money, vast amounts of manpower, and considerable political capital in ventures of this kind all across the globe. Most of the focus in current literature is on the acute cases, such as Afghanistan and Iraq, but also to states that seem to fit the label 'failed states' such as Liberia, Sierra Leone and Somalia. This book brings together a diverse group of scholars who introduce new theoretical approaches from the broader social sciences. The chapters revisit historical cases of statebuilding, and provide thought-provoking, new strategic perspectives on the field. The result is a volume that broadens and deepens our understanding of statebuilding by highlighting the importance of hybridity, contingency and history in a broad range of case-studies. This book will be of much interest to students of statebuilding and intervention, peacebuilding, war and conflict studies, security studies and IR in general"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-271) and index.