Statebuilding and state-formation
Subtitle: the political sociology of intervention
By: edited by Berit Bliesemann de Guevara
Series: Routledge studies in intervention and statebuilding
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780415676977; 9780203123935
Subjects: Political sociology; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / General; Intervention (International law); Nation-building; HISTORY / Military / General
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.