Description
Book SynopsisExplores international efforts to help the world's fragile post-civil war countries today build viable states that can provide for security and deliver the basic services essential for development. This book concludes with a road map toward a better global regime to enable peacebuilding and development-oriented statebuilding into the 21st century.
Trade Review"A thorough examination of whystatebuilding is essential to peacebuilding, and a richly documented case for why the internationalcommunity should assist statebuilding in fragile states."
International Affairs"Readers looking for an interesting and accessible account of contemporary practice and the debates which surround it will be very satisfied."
LSE Review of Books"A comprehensive account of the evolution of the international response to civil war and the challenge of post-conflict peacebuilding. An important challenge to much contemporary policy, Statebuilding will quickly take a place among the 'must read' accounts of contemporary statebuilding."
Bruce Jones, Brookings and the NYU Center on International Cooperation; senior advisor to the WDR 2011 on Conflict, Security and Development"Sisk's book is the best guide to 'statebuilding' I know. It provides conceptual clarity and a framework for international action. It is written with clear-headed commitment and a seriousness of purpose that leaves the reader in no doubt that we are dealing with one of the key challenges of the modern era."
Khalid Koser, Geneva Centre for Security Policy"A lucid and highly accessible defense of how the building of states after civil war by international intervention is essential to peace. It is a very fine culmination of a research agenda on liberal internationalism begun a decade ago. Teachers will find
Statebuilding extremely comprehensive on the current orthodoxy."
Susan Woodward, City University of New YorkTable of ContentsAbout the Author vi
Preface viii
Abbreviations xii
Introduction 1
1. Civil War and Post-War Fragility 17
2. The State into the Twenty-fi rst Century 46
3. International Engagement for Statebuilding after Civil War 64
4. Authority: Imperatives of Security 79
5. Capacity: Creating the Conditions for
Development 107
6. Legitimacy: Toward a Democratic State 127
7. Strengthening the International Statebuilding
Regime 156
Notes 170
References 188
Index 210
