Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 279 pages)
Edition:
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780203073872
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in intervention and statebuilding
Content:
This volume connects the study of statebuilding to broader aspects of social theory and the historical study of the state, bringing forth new questions and starting-points, both academically and practically, for the field. Building states has become a highly prioritized issue in international politics. Since the 1990s, mainly Western countries and international institutions have invested large sums of money, vast amounts of manpower, and considerable political capital in ventures of this kind all across the globe. Most of the focus in current literature is on the acute cases, such as
Note:
Cover ; New Agendas in Statebuilding; Title Page ; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: the need for new agendas in statebuilding; PART I New theoretical approaches to statebuilding; 2 Hybrid statebuilding; 3 Against endogeneity: the systemic preconditions of state formation; 4 Somalia: state 'failure' and the emergence of hybrid political orders; 5 State theory and statebuilding: towards a Gramscian analysis; PART II Revisiting historical cases of statebuilding
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6 The improbable European state: its ideals observed with social systems theory7 The local adaptation of centralizing politics: hybrid statebuilding in sixteenth-century Sweden; 8 Changing perceptions of the Western form of government in Islamic thought; PART III Strategic imperatives in statebuilding; 9 Exploring the strategic logic of withdrawal from statebuilding interventions; 10 In our image: statebuilding orthodoxy and the Afghan National Army; 11 Winning legitimacy?: counterinsurgency as the military approach to statebuilding; Conclusion
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12 Towards new agendas: implications for the theory and practice of statebuildingBibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781135105655
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415660716
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe New Agendas in Statebuilding : Hybridity, Contingency and History
Language:
English
Keywords:
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Internationale Politik
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Friedenssicherung
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Geschichte 1990-2012
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