1st Edition
International Intervention and State-making How Exception Became the Norm
By Selver B. Sahin
Copyright 2015
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book analyses the changing dynamics of sovereignty resulting from contemporary international state-building interventions.
It aims to highlight how the exercise of ‘exceptional’ forms of power by intervening agencies impacts on the sovereign capacity of intervened states. Drawing upon in-depth analyses of three case studies – Kosovo, East Timor and the Kurdistan Regional... Read more
1. Introduction: Statebuilding in International Context 2. The Myth of Exceptional State-Making 3. Theorising Exceptional State-Making 4. Kosovo and Conflicting Sovereignty Claims 5.The Kurdish Regional Government and the Question of Increasing Autonomy 6. Timor-Leste as an 'Exceptional' State 7. Conclusion
Biography
Selver B. Sahin is assistant professor at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, and has a PhD in Political Science from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
