Military, Strategic, and Security Studies Research

Routledge Studies in Intervention and Statebuilding

1. Mediation and Liberal Peacebuilding

   Peace from the Ashes of War?

   Edited by Mikael Eriksson, Roland Kostić

   Series: Routledge Studies in Intervention and Statebuilding

   This book offers a state-of-the-art examination of peacemaking, looking at its theoretical assumptions, empirical applications and its consequences. Despite the wealth of research on external interventions and practices of Western peacebuilding, many scholars tend to rely on findings in the...

   Published February 3rd 2013 by Routledge
2. Statebuilding and State-Formation

   The Political Sociology of Intervention

   Edited by Berit Bliesemann de Guevara

   Series: Routledge Studies in Intervention and Statebuilding

   This book examines the ways in which long-term processes of state-formation limit the possibilities for short-term political projects of statebuilding. Using process-oriented approaches, the contributing authors explore what happens when conscious efforts at statebuilding ‘meet’ social contexts,...

   Published February 16th 2012 by Routledge
3. The International Community and Statebuilding

   Getting Its Act Together?

   Edited by Patrice McMahon, Jon Western

   Series: Routledge Studies in Intervention and Statebuilding

   This book brings together policymakers and academics to analyse the international community’s performance in post-war statebuilding projects. In the past twenty years, statebuilding has emerged as a centerpiece of international efforts to stabilize violent conflicts. From the Balkans, to Iraq, to...

   Published January 26th 2012 by Routledge
4. Political Economy of Statebuilding

   Power after Peace

   Edited by Mats Berdal, Dominik Zaum

   Series: Routledge Studies in Intervention and Statebuilding

   This volume examines and evaluates the impact of international statebuilding interventions on the political economy of conflict-affected countries over the past 20 years. It focuses on countries that are emerging, or have recently emerged, from periods of war and protracted conflict. The...

   Published October 15th 2012 by Routledge
5. Violence in Post-Conflict Societies

   Remarginalization, Remobilizers and Relationships

   By Anders Themnér

   Series: Routledge Studies in Intervention and Statebuilding

   This book compares post-civil war societies to look at the presence or absence of organized violence, analysing why some ex-combatants return to organised violence and others do not. Even though former fighters have been identified as a major source of insecurity, there have been few efforts to...

   Published May 9th 2011 by Routledge
6. Statebuilding in Afghanistan

   Multinational Contributions to Reconstruction

   Edited by Nik Hynek, Péter Marton

   Series: Routledge Studies in Intervention and Statebuilding

   This edited volume empirically maps and theorises NATO-ISAF’s contribution to peacebuilding and reconstruction in Afghanistan. The book provides a contextual framework of the NATO participation in Afghanistan; it offers an outline of the security situation in Afghanistan and discusses geopolitical,...

   Published July 20th 2011 by Routledge
7. Statebuilding and Police Reform

   The Freedom of Security

   By Barry J. Ryan

   Series: Routledge Studies in Intervention and Statebuilding

   This book explores how and why police reform became an international phenomenon in the era of statebuilding that followed the end of the Cold War. Police reform has become an indispensible element in the spread of liberal democracy. Policing is distinguished by its ability to combine reasonable...

   Published March 24th 2011 by Routledge
8. Critical Perspectives on the Responsibility to Protect

   Interrogating Theory and Practice

   Edited by Philip Cunliffe

   Series: Routledge Studies in Intervention and Statebuilding

   This edited volume critically examines the widely supported doctrine of the 'Responsibility to Protect', and investigates the claim that it embodies progressive values in international politics. Since the United Nations World Summit of 2005, a remarkable consensus has emerged in support of the...

   Published April 3rd 2011 by Routledge
9. Kosovo, Intervention and Statebuilding

   The International Community and the Transition to Independence

   Edited by Aidan Hehir

   Series: Routledge Studies in Intervention and Statebuilding

   This book examines international engagement with Kosovo since NATO’s intervention in 1999, and looks at the three distinct phases of Kosovo’s development; intervention, statebuilding and independence. Kosovo remains a case study of central importance in international relations, illustrative of key...

   Published January 12th 2010 by Routledge
10. Security, Development and the Fragile State

    Bridging the Gap between Theory and Policy

    By David Carment, Stewart Prest, Yiagadeesen Samy

    Series: Routledge Studies in Intervention and Statebuilding

    This book provides theoretical clarity about the concepts of failed and fragile states, which have emerged strongly since the 9/11 attacks. Recent contributions often see the fragile state as either a problem of development or of security. This volume argues that that neither perspective on its...

    Published July 21st 2009 by Routledge
11. Reintegrating Armed Groups After Conflict

    Politics, Violence and Transition

    Edited by Mats Berdal, David Ucko

    Series: Routledge Studies in Intervention and Statebuilding

    This book looks at the political reintegration of armed groups after civil wars and the challenges of transforming ‘rebel’, ‘insurgent’ or other non-state armed groups into viable political entities. Drawing on eight case studies, the definition of ‘armed groups’ here ranges from militias,...

    Published April 5th 2009 by Routledge
12. Statebuilding and Intervention

    Policies, Practices and Paradigms

    Edited by David Chandler

    Series: Routledge Studies in Intervention and Statebuilding

    This edited book sets out and engages with some of the key policies, practices and paradigms of external intervention in the case of state support and reconstruction. Many assumptions about statebuilding have been reconsidered in the wake of Iraq, and ongoing problems in other states such as...

    Published December 1st 2008 by Routledge