Building States to Build Peace

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	2008/438 pages

There is increasing consensus among scholars and policy analysts that successful peacebuilding can occur only in the context of capable state institutions. But how can legitimate and sustainable states best be established in the aftermath of civil wars? And what role should international actors play in supporting the vital process?

Addressing these questions, this state-of-the-art volume explores the core challenges involved in institutionalizing postconflict states. The combination of thematic chapters and in-depth case studies covers the full range of the most vexing and diverse problems confronting domestic and international actors seeking to build states while building peace.

• Foreword—Terje Rød Larsen.
• Ending Wars, Building State, Building States—C.T. Call.
• CONTEXT.
• The Politics of Security in Postconflict Statebuilding—B.R. Rubin.
• Participation and State Legitimation—K. Papagianni.
• Peacebuilding and Public Finance—M. Carnahan and C. Lockhart.
• Postconflict Economic Policy—P. Collier.
• Justice and the Rule of Law—E. Jensen.
• Bottom-Up Statebuilding?—W. Reno.
• Practical Approaches to Building State Institutions—S. Cliffe and N. Manning.
• CASES.
• Somalia: Governance vs. Statebuilding—K. Menkhaus.
• Palestine: Building Neither Peace Nor State—R. Brynen.
• Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Limits of Liberal Imperialism—M. Cox.
• East Timor: Statebuilding Revisted—E. Bowles and T. Chopra.
• Afghanistan: Nationally Led Statebuilding—J. Sherman.
• Liberia: The Risks of Rebuilding a Shadow State—M. McGovern.
• CONCLUSION.
• Building States to Build Peace?—C.T. Call.