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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.

39 Series Titles


Statebuilding and Police Reform The Freedom of Security

Statebuilding and Police Reform: The Freedom of Security

1st Edition

By Barry J. Ryan
May 02, 2011

This book explores how and why police reform became an international phenomenon in the era of statebuilding that followed the end of the Cold War. Police reform has become an indispensible element in the spread of liberal democracy. Policing is distinguished by its ability to combine reasonable ...

Security, Development and the Fragile State Bridging the Gap between Theory and Policy

Security, Development and the Fragile State: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Policy

1st Edition

By David Carment, Stewart Prest, Yiagadeesen Samy
February 04, 2011

This book provides theoretical clarity about the concepts of failed and fragile states, which have emerged strongly since the 9/11 attacks. Recent contributions often see the fragile state as either a problem of development or of security. This volume argues that that neither perspective on its ...

Reintegrating Armed Groups After Conflict Politics, Violence and Transition

Reintegrating Armed Groups After Conflict: Politics, Violence and Transition

1st Edition

Edited By Mats Berdal, David Ucko
November 10, 2010

This book looks at the political reintegration of armed groups after civil wars and the challenges of transforming ‘rebel’, ‘insurgent’ or other non-state armed groups into viable political entities. Drawing on eight case studies, the definition of ‘armed groups’ here ranges from militias, ...

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