The International Community and Statebuilding
This book brings together policy-makers and academics to analyse the international communitys performance in post-war statebuilding projects.
In the past 20 years, statebuilding has emerged as a centerpiece of international efforts to stabilize violent conflicts. From the Balkans, to Iraq, to Afghanistan, it has become widely accepted that statebuilding defined as the development of transparent and accountable political institutions, stable and sustainable economic structures, professional public administrations, and civiliancontrolled security services is essential to the long-term stability of post-conflict settlements.
The International Community and Statebuilding brings together senior-level policy-makers and academics in order to analyse the international communitys performance in post-war statebuilding projects. Filling an important gap in the existing body of work on this topic, the contributors explore how international state builders have attempted to negotiate the intersections of multilateralism, competing strategic priorities and agendas, organizational complexity, and domestic politics.
This book will be of much interest to students of statebuilding, peacebuilding, war and conflict studies, and international relations in general.
Patrice C. McMahon is an Associate Professor at the University of Nebraska Lincoln. She is also the author of Taming Ethnic Hatred (2007) and co-editor of US Foreign Policy in the Age of Globalism with David P. Forsythe and Andrew Wedeman (2006).
Jon Western is Five College Associate Professor of International Relations at Mount Holyoke College and the Five Colleges, Inc. He is the author of Selling Intervention and War (2005) and co-editor of Global Giant: Is China Changing the Rules of the Game with Eva Paus and Penelope B. Prime.
Routledge Studies in Intervention and Statebuilding
Series Editor: David Chandler
Statebuilding and Intervention
Policies, practices and paradigms
Edited by David Chandler
Reintegration of Armed Groups After Conflict
Politics, violence and transition
Edited by Mats Berdal and David H. Ucko
Security, Development, and the Fragile State
Bridging the gap between theory and policy
David Carment, Stewart Prest, and Yiagadeesen Samy
Kosovo, Intervention and Statebuilding
The international community and the transition to independence
Edited by Aidan Hehir
Critical Perspectives on the Responsibility to Protect
Interrogating theory and practice
Edited by Philip Cunliffe
Statebuilding and Police Reform
The freedom of security
Barry J. Ryan
Violence in Post-Conflict Societies
Remarginalisation, remobilisers and relationships
Anders Themnr
Statebuilding in Afghanistan
Multinational contributions to reconstruction
Edited by Nik Hynek and Pter Marton
The International Community and Statebuilding
Getting its act together?
Edited by Patrice C. McMahon and Jon Western
The International Community and Statebuilding
Getting its act together?
Edited by Patrice C. McMahon and Jon Western
The International Community and Statebuilding
Getting its act together?
Edited by Patrice C. McMahon and Jon Western
First published 2012
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The international community and statebuilding : getting its act together? / edited by Patrice C. McMahon and Jon Western.
p. cm. (Routledge studies in intervention and statebuilding ; 9)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Nation-building. 2. Nation-buildingCase studies. I. McMahon, Patrice C. II. Western, Jon W., 1963
JZ6300.I56 2012
327.1dc23
2011036809
ISBN: 978-0-415-69539-8 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-203-12527-4 (ebk)
Contents
PATRICE C. MCMAHON AND JON WESTERN
JON WESTERN
JAMES DOBBINS
LISE MORJ HOWARD
WILLIAM G. O NEILL
PAULA M. PICKERING
MARVIN G. WEINBAUM
RONALD E. NEUMANN
DAVID P. AUERSWALD AND STEPHEN M. SAIDEMAN
DANIEL SERWER
Contributors
David P. Auerswald is Professor of Security Studies at the National War College. He has published on many foreign policy topics, including the politics of military interventions, the US national security policy process, and deterrence. He has degrees from Brown and UC San Diego and has worked as a congressional staff person.
James Dobbins is Director of the International Security and Defense Policy Center at RAND. He has served as US special envoy for Afghanistan, kosovo, Bosnia, Haiti, and Somalia. He also has served as Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and US Ambassador to the European Community.
Lise Morj Howard is Assistant Professor of Government at Georgetown University. She is serving as a Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace in 20112012. Her book, UN Peacekeeping in Civil Wars (2008) won the Best Book Award from the Academic Council on the UN System.
Patrice C. McMahon is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is the author of Taming Ethnic Hatreds: Ethnic Cooperation and Transnational Networks in Eastern Europe (2007) and the co-editor of American Foreign Policy in a Globalized World (2006) and International Human Rights and Diversity (2004).
Ronald E. Neumann is President of the American Academy of Diplomacy. He served as US Ambassador to Afghanistan from 2005 to 2007 and previously as Ambassador to Algeria and Bahrain. He served as Political/Military Counselor in the US Embassy in Iraq from 2004 to 2005. He is the author of The Other War: Wining and Losing in Afghanistan.
William ONeill is an international lawyer and is the Director of the Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum. He was Senior Advisor on Human Rights in the UN Mission in kosovo, Chief of the UN Human Rights Field Operation in Rwanda and led the Legal Department of the UN/OAS Mission in Haiti.
