1st Edition
Statebuilding and State-Formation The Political Sociology of Intervention
Introduction: Statebuilding and State-Formation Berit Bliesemann de Guevara Part I: State-Formation, Violence and Political Economy 1. Risk and Externalisation in Afghanistan – Why Statebuilding Upends State-Formation Florian P. Kühn 2. International Intervention and the Congolese Army: A Paradox of Intermediary Rule Alex Veit 3. War Makers and State Makers: On State-Formative Networks and Illiberal Political Economy in Kosovo Jens Stilhoff Sörensen 4. Georgia-South Ossetia Networks of Profit: Challenges to Statebuilding Stacy Closson Part II: Governance, Legitimacy and Practice in Statebuilding and State-Formation 5. Statebuilding versus State-Formation in East Timor Lee Jones 6. The Limitations of International Analyses of the State and Post-Conflict Statebuilding in Sierra Leone Christof P. Kurz 7. Statebuilding as Tacit Trusteeship: The Case of Liberia Louise Riis Andersen 8. The Road Less Travelled: Self-Led Statebuilding and International ‘Non-Intervention’ in the Creation of Somaliland Rebecca Richards Part III: The International Self- Statebuilders' Institutional Logics, Social Backgrounds and Subjectivities 9. Three Arenas: The Conflictive Logic of External Statebuilding Alex Veit and Klaus Schlichte 10. The International Scramble for Police Reform in the Balkans Stephan Hensell 11. The ‘Statebuilding Habitus’: UN Staff and the Cultural Dimension of Liberal Intervention in Kosovo Catherine Goetze and Berit Bliesemann de Guevara 12. The International Self and the Humanitarianisation of Politics: A Case Study of Goma, DR Congo Kai Koddenbrock 13. The State We Are(n’t) In: Liminal Subjectivity in Aid Worker Auto-Biographies Lisa Smirl Conclusions: Neither Built nor Formed – the Transformation of States under International Intervention John Heathershaw
Biography
Berit Bliesemann de Guevara is a researcher and lecturer in international relations at Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg. She co-authored Illusion Statebuilding (Hamburg 2010) and is assistant editor of the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding.
