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Author:   Berit Bliesemann de Guevara (Aberystwyth University, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9780415731423

ISBN 10:   0415731429
Pages:   286
Publication Date:   07 October 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Statebuilding and State-Formation Part I: State-Formation, Violence and Political Economy 1. Risk and Externalisation in Afghanistan – Why Statebuilding Upends State-Formation 2. International Intervention and the Congolese Army: A Paradox of Intermediary Rule 3. War Makers and State Makers: On State-Formative Networks and Illiberal Political Economy in Kosovo 4. Georgia-South Ossetia Networks of Profit: Challenges to Statebuilding Part II: Governance, Legitimacy and Practice in Statebuilding and State-Formation 5. Statebuilding versus State-Formation in East Timor 6. The Limitations of International Analyses of the State and Post-Conflict Statebuilding in Sierra Leone 7. Statebuilding as Tacit Trusteeship: The Case of Liberia 8. The Road Less Travelled: Self-Led Statebuilding and International ‘Non-Intervention’ in the Creation of Somaliland Part III: The International Self- Statebuilders' Institutional Logics, Social Backgrounds and Subjectivities 9. Three Arenas: The Conflictive Logic of External Statebuilding 10. The International Scramble for Police Reform in the Balkans 11. The ‘Statebuilding Habitus’: UN Staff and the Cultural Dimension of Liberal Intervention in Kosovo 12. The International Self and the Humanitarianisation of Politics: A Case Study of Goma, DR Congo 13. The State We Are(n’t) In: Liminal Subjectivity in Aid Worker Auto-Biographies Conclusions: Neither Built nor Formed – the Transformation of States under International Intervention

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Berit Bliesemann de Guevara is a researcher and lecturer in international relations at Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg. She co-authored Illusion Statebuilding (Hamburg 2010) and is assistant editor of the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding.

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