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.
Semantics of Statebuilding: Language, meanings and sovereignty
1st Edition
Edited
By Nicolas Lemay-Hébert, Nicholas Onuf, Vojin Rakić, Petar Bojanić
January 20, 2016
This volume examines international statebuilding in terms of language and meanings, rather than focusing narrowly on current policy practices. After two decades of evolution towards more ‘integrated,’ ‘multi-faceted’ or, simply stated, more intrusive statebuilding and peacebuilding operations, a ...
Rethinking Democracy Promotion in International Relations: The Rise of the Social
1st Edition
By Jessica Schmidt
September 02, 2015
This book traces and conceptualises the changing notion of democracy and demonstrates how democracy promotion finds itself at the heart of contemporary international discourses and policies. Democracy promotion is widely considered to constitute a hypocritical and failed ‘grand international ...
Security and Hybridity after Armed Conflict: The Dynamics of Security Provision in Post-Civil War States
1st Edition
By Rens C. Willems
April 23, 2015
This book examines the dynamics of security provision in international interventions in post-conflict states. It focuses on how international security interventions – such as Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) programmes, Security Sector Reform (SSR) and Armed Violence Reduction (...
Statebuilding and Intervention: Policies, Practices and Paradigms
1st Edition
Edited
By David Chandler
April 09, 2015
This edited book sets out and engages with some of the key policies, practices and paradigms of external intervention in the case of state support and reconstruction. Many assumptions about statebuilding have been reconsidered in the wake of Iraq, and ongoing problems in other states such as ...
Internal Security and Statebuilding: Aligning Agencies and Functions
1st Edition
By B. K. Greener, W. J. Fish
December 05, 2014
This book examines international efforts to provide security in post-conflict sites and explains why internal security should be given precedence in statebuilding endeavours. The work begins by exploring the evolution of security sectors in mature liberal democratic states, before examining the ...
Violence in Post-Conflict Societies: Remarginalization, Remobilizers and Relationships
1st Edition
By Anders Themnér
November 10, 2014
This book compares post-civil war societies to look at the presence or absence of organized violence, analysing why some ex-combatants return to organised violence and others do not. Even though former fighters have been identified as a major source of insecurity, there have been few efforts to ...
Statebuilding and State-Formation: The Political Sociology of Intervention
1st Edition
Edited
By Berit Bliesemann de Guevara
October 03, 2013
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 contributing authors explore what happens when conscious efforts at statebuilding ‘meet’ social contexts, ...
Kosovo, Intervention and Statebuilding: The International Community and the Transition to Independence
1st Edition
Edited
By Aidan Hehir
July 17, 2013
This book examines international engagement with Kosovo since NATO’s intervention in 1999, and looks at the three distinct phases of Kosovo’s development; intervention, statebuilding and independence. Kosovo remains a case study of central importance in international relations, illustrative of key...
Political Economy of Statebuilding: Power after peace
1st Edition
Edited
By Mats Berdal, Dominik Zaum
June 17, 2013
This volume examines and evaluates the impact of international statebuilding interventions on the political economy of post-conflict countries over the past 20 years. While statebuilding today is typically discussed in the context of ‘peacebuilding’ and ‘stabilisation’ operations, the current ...
Mediation and Liberal Peacebuilding: Peace from the Ashes of War?
1st Edition
Edited
By Mikael Eriksson, Roland Kostić
February 05, 2013
This book offers a state-of-the-art examination of peacemaking, looking at its theoretical assumptions, empirical applications and its consequences. Despite the wealth of research on external interventions and practices of Western peacebuilding, many scholars tend to rely on findings in the ...
Critical Perspectives on the Responsibility to Protect: Interrogating Theory and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Philip Cunliffe
December 05, 2012
This edited volume critically examines the widely supported doctrine of the 'Responsibility to Protect', and investigates the claim that it embodies progressive values in international politics. Since the United Nations World Summit of 2005, a remarkable consensus has emerged in support of the ...
Political Economy of Statebuilding: Power after Peace
1st Edition
Edited
By Mats Berdal, Dominik Zaum
October 15, 2012
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 ...