Routledge Studies in Intervention and Statebuilding
About the Book Series
The series publishes monographs and edited collections analysing a wide range of policy interventions associated with statebuilding. It asks broader questions about the dynamics, purposes and goals of this interventionist framework and assesses the impact of externally-guided policy-making.
Advisory Board: Berit Bliesemann de Guevara, Aberystwyth University; Morten Boas, NUPI; Adam Branch, San Diego State University; David Chandler, University of Westminster; Adrian Gallagher, University of Leeds; Luke Glanville, Australian National University; Shahar Hameiri, Murdoch University; John Heathershaw, University of Exeter; Eric Heinze, University of Oklahoma; Robert Murray, University of Alberta; Lee P. M. Seymour, University of Amsterdam; Timea Spitka, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
The Practice of Humanitarian Intervention: Aid workers, Agencies and Institutions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
1st Edition
By Kai Koddenbrock
December 13, 2017
This book examines the practices in Western and local spheres of humanitarian intervention, and shows how the divide between these spheres helps to perpetuate Western involvement. Using the Democratic Republic of the Congo as a case study – an object of Western intervention since colonial times –&...
Local Legitimacy in Peacebuilding: Pathways to Local Compliance with International Police Reform
1st Edition
By Birte Julia Gippert
August 25, 2017
This book analyses the role of legitimacy in explaining local actors’ compliance with international peacebuilding operations. The book provides a comparative, micro-level study of local actors’ reasons for compliance with or resistance to international peacebuilding. Specifically, it analyses three...
The Politics of International Intervention: The Tyranny of Peace
1st Edition
Edited
By Mandy Turner, Florian P. Kühn
June 30, 2017
This book critically explores the practices of peacebuilding, and the politics of the communities experiencing intervention. The contributions to this volume have a dual focus. First, they analyse the practices of western intervention and peacebuilding, and the prejudices and politics that drive ...
The International Community and Statebuilding: Getting Its Act Together?
1st Edition
Edited
By Patrice McMahon, Jon Western
June 16, 2017
This book brings together policymakers and academics to analyse the international community’s performance in post-war statebuilding projects. In the past twenty years, statebuilding has emerged as a centerpiece of international efforts to stabilize violent conflicts. From the Balkans, to Iraq, to ...
Rethinking Neo-Institutional Statebuilding: The Knowledge Paradox of International Intervention
1st Edition
By Peter Finkenbusch
May 17, 2017
This book examines how neo-institutional statebuilding undercuts international policy agency. Post-Cold War interventions are marked by a peculiar paradox. From peace and statebuilding projects in war-shattered societies to World Bank development programmes in Africa, the scope of external ...
The Contentious Politics of Statebuilding: Strategies and Dynamics
1st Edition
By Outi Keränen
April 17, 2017
The book examines the dynamics between domestic and international statebuilding actors. While the dynamics between "local" and "international" statebuilding actors have been previously theorised through concepts such as hybridity and friction, there have been few attempts to develop conceptual ...
Protecting Human Rights in the 21st Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Aidan Hehir, Robert W. Murray
April 06, 2017
This book contributes to current debates on the protection of human rights in the 21st century. With the global economic collapse, the rise of the BRICS, the post-intervention chaos in Libya, the migration crisis in Europe, and the regional conflagration sparked by the conflict in Syria, ...
Regional Intervention Politics in Africa: Crisis, Hegemony, and the Transformation of Subjectivity
1st Edition
By Stefanie Wodrig
February 28, 2017
This book analyses regional interventions in African conflict spaces by engaging with political discourse theory. Interventions are a performance of agency, but what happens if interventions are performed by forces that scholars have hardly ever considered as relevant agents in this regard? Based ...
International Intervention and State-making: How Exception Became the Norm
1st Edition
By Selver B. Sahin
February 27, 2017
This book analyses the changing dynamics of sovereignty resulting from contemporary international state-building interventions. It aims to highlight how the exercise of ‘exceptional’ forms of power by intervening agencies impacts on the sovereign capacity of intervened states. Drawing ...
Humanitarian Crises, Intervention and Security: A Framework for Evidence-Based Programming
1st Edition
Edited
By Liesbet Heyse, Andrej Zwitter, Rafael Wittek, Joost Herman
October 10, 2016
This book presents a new framework of analysis to assess natural and man-made disasters and humanitarian crises, and the feasibility of interventions in these complex emergencies. The past half-century has witnessed a dramatic increase in such crises - such as in Haiti, Iraq and Sudan - and this ...
The EU and Member State Building: European Foreign Policy in the Western Balkans
1st Edition
Edited
By Soeren Keil, Zeynep Arkan
October 10, 2016
This book critically examines the process of statebuilding by the EU, focusing on its attempts to build Member States in the Western Balkan region. This book analyses the European Union's policies towards, and the impact they have, upon the states of the Western Balkans, and assesses how these ...
Statebuilding in Afghanistan: Multinational Contributions to Reconstruction
1st Edition
Edited
By Nik Hynek, Péter Marton
August 26, 2016
This edited volume empirically maps and theorises NATO-ISAF’s contribution to peacebuilding and reconstruction in Afghanistan. The book provides a contextual framework of the NATO participation in Afghanistan; it offers an outline of the security situation in Afghanistan and discusses geopolitical,...