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States of Disorder, Ecosystems of Governance - Complexity Theory Applied to UN Statebuilding in the DRC and South Sudan (Hardcover)
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States of Disorder, Ecosystems of Governance - Complexity Theory Applied to UN Statebuilding in the DRC and South Sudan (Hardcover)
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Today's vision of world order is founded upon the concept of
strong, well-functioning states, in contrast to the destabilizing
potential of failed or fragile states. This worldview has dominated
international interventions over the past 30 years as enormous
resources have been devoted to developing and extending the
governance capacity of weak or failing states, hoping to transform
them into reliable nodes in the global order. But with very few
exceptions, this project has not delivered on its promise:
countries like Somalia, Afghanistan, South Sudan, and the
Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) remain mired in conflict
despite decades of international interventions. States of Disorder
addresses the question, 'Why has UN state-building so consistently
failed to meet its objectives?'. It proposes an explanation based
on the application of complexity theory to UN interventions in
South Sudan and DRC, where the UN has been tasked to implement
massive stabilization and state-building missions. Far from being
''ungoverned spaces," these settings present complex, dynamical
systems of governance with emergent properties that allow them to
adapt and resist attempts to change them. UN interventions, based
upon assumptions that gradual increases in institutional capacity
will lead to improved governance, fail to reflect how change occurs
in these systems and may in fact contribute to underlying patterns
of exclusion and violence. Based on more than a decade of the
author's work in peacekeeping, this book offers a systemic mapping
of how governance systems work, and indeed work against, UN
interventions. Pursuing a complexity-driven approach instead helps
to avoid unintentional consequences, identifies meaningful points
of leverage, and opens the possibility of transforming societies
from within.
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