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Dilemmas of Statebuilding Confronting the Contradictions of Postwar Peace Operations

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ISBN-10: 0415776295

ISBN-13: 9780415776295

Edition: 2009

Authors: Roland Paris, Timothy D. Sisk, Timothy D. Sisk

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List price: $59.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 2/20/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 362
Size: 6.26" wide x 9.29" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

University of Ottawa, Canada

Timothy D. Sisk is Professor and Associate Dean for Research at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver.

List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: understanding the contradictions of postwar statebuilding
Domestic and international context
The peacebuilder's contract: how external statebuilding reinforces weak statehood
Understanding the "coordination problem" in postwar statebuilding
Security
Foreign militaries, sustainable institutions, and postwar statebuilding
Making peacemakers out of spoilers: international organizations, private military training, and statebuilding after war
Political economy
Trajectories of accumulation through war and peace
The superficiality of statebuilding in Cambodia: patronage and clientelism as enduring forms of politics
Institutional design
Postwar constitution building: opportunities and challenges
Pathways of the political: electoral processes after civil war
Autonomy and dependence
The dangers of a tight embrace: externally assisted statebuilding in Afghanistan
Dilemmas of promoting "local ownership": the case of postwar Kosovo
Reflections and conclusions
Statebuilding after Afghanistan and Iraq
Conclusion: confronting the contradictions
References
Index