1st Edition
Rethinking Neo-Institutional Statebuilding The Knowledge Paradox of International Intervention
By Peter Finkenbusch
Copyright 2017
174 Pages
by
Routledge
174 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book examines how neo-institutional statebuilding undercuts international policy agency. Post-Cold War interventions are marked by a peculiar paradox. From peace and statebuilding projects in war-shattered societies to World Bank development programmes in Africa, the scope of external regulation has grown consistently while international policymakers are finding it increasingly difficult to... Read more
Introduction
1. Expansive Intervention as Neo-Institutional Learning: Introducing the Knowledge Paradox
2. The Demise of Liberal-Universalism: Reality as Critique
3. Mexico´s New Sovereignty: ‘Shared Responsibility’ and Resilience in the Merida Initiative
4. The Neo-Institutional Search for Civil Society
5. Neo-Institutional Capacity Building: Disassembling International Policy
Conclusion
Biography
Peter Finkenbusch is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Development and Peace (INEF), University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, and has a PhD in Political Science from the Free University Berlin, Germany.
