The dilemmas of statebuilding: confronting the contradictions of postwar peace operations

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Illustrations......Page 8
Contributors......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 14
1 Introduction: Understanding the contradictions of postwar statebuilding......Page 16
Part I Domestic and international context......Page 36
2 The peacebuilder’s contract: How external statebuilding reinforces weak statehood......Page 38
3 Understanding the coordination problem” in postwar statebuilding......Page 68
Part II Security......Page 94
4 Foreign militaries, sustainable institutions, and postwar statebuilding......Page 96
5 Making peacemakers out of spoilers: International organizations, private military training, and statebuilding after war......Page 119
Part III Political economy......Page 142
6 Trajectories of accumulation through war and peace......Page 144
7 The superficiality of statebuilding in Cambodia: Patronage and clientelism as enduring forms of politics......Page 164
Part IV Institutional design......Page 186
8 Postwar constitution building: Opportunities and challenges......Page 188
9 Pathways of the political: Electoral processes after civil war......Page 211
Part V Autonomy and dependence......Page 240
10 The dangers of a tight embrace: Externally assisted statebuilding in Afghanistan......Page 242
11 Dilemmas of promoting “local ownership”: The case of postwar Kosovo......Page 267
Part VI Reflections and conclusions......Page 300
12 Statebuilding after Afghanistan and Iraq......Page 302
13 Conclusion: Confronting the contradictions......Page 319
References......Page 331
Index......Page 363