Books in the Routledge Studies in Intervention and Statebuilding series

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the trajectory of international human-rights protection in the 21st century.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the trajectory of international human-rights protection in the 21st century.

This book examines the Western and local spheres of intervention and shows how their separation helps to perpetuate intervention.

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.

This book demonstrates that democracy promotion, having undergone a radical reworking, is now at the heart of contemporary international discourses and policies.

This book examines the dynamics of security provision in international interventions in post-conflict states, to better understand the interactions between international actors implementing interventions and the local and national actors involved.

This book critically examines the process of statebuilding by the EU, focusing on its attempts to build Member States in the Western Balkan region.

This book investigates the roles of the police and the military and their interactions in international peace operations.

This book presents a new framework of analysis to assess the antecedents, process and consequences of natural and man-made disasters and humanitarian crises, and the feasibility of their respective interventions.

This volume examines international statebuilding in terms of language and meanings, rather than focusing narrowly on current policy practices.

This volume examines and evaluates the impact of international statebuilding interventions on the political economy of post-conflict countries over the past 20 years.

This book critically interrogates the politics of international intervention, highlighting the violence that inheres in attempts to enforce socio-economic and political changes from the `outside¿.

This edited volume maps and theorizes NATO-ISAF¿s multi-national contribution to peacebuilding and reconstruction in Afghanistan. It answers key questions through a series of case studies which together form a comparative study of national contributions to the multilateral mission in Afghanistan.

Interrogates both the theoretical principles and the policy consequences of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine. This title argues that the doctrine of R2P does not embody progressive values and that it has the potential to undermine international order.

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.

Intends to reconceptualise the notions of state failure and fragility, to provide a policy-relevant framework on these issues. In a wide-ranging treatment, drawing on large samples and case studies, this book provides an alternative model of the fragile state emphasizing the multidimensional, multifaceted nature of the fragile state problematique.

Presents a look at the political reintegration of armed groups after civil wars.

Sets out and engages with some of the key policies, practices and paradigms of external intervention in the case of state support and reconstruction. This book explores the broader framing of policy goals, statebuilding practices and the consensus on the need for Western states and international institutions to be engaged in this policy area.

This book offers a state-of-the-art examination of peacemaking, looking at its theoretical assumptions, empirical applications and its consequences.

This book introduces new conceptual tools for studying local agency and international-local dynamics in post-conflict statebuilding.