This concise and accessible new text offers original and insightful
analysis of the policy paradigm informing international
statebuilding interventions. The book covers the theoretical
frameworks and practices of international statebuilding, the
debates they have triggered, and the way that international
statebuilding has developed in the post-Cold War era. Spanning a
broad remit of policy practices from post-conflict peacebuilding to
sustainable development and EU enlargement, Chandler draws out how
these policies have been cohered around the problematization of
autonomy or self-government. Rather than promoting democracy on the
basis of the universal capacity of people for self-rule,
international statebuilding assumes that people lack capacity to
make their own judgements safely and therefore that democracy
requires external intervention and the building of civil society
and state institutional capacity. Chandler argues that this policy
framework inverses traditional liberal-democratic understandings of
autonomy and freedom - privileging governance over government - and
that the dominance of this policy perspective is a cause of concern
for those who live in states involved in statebuilding as much as
for those who are subject to these new regulatory frameworks.
Encouraging readers to reflect upon the changing understanding of
both state-society relations and of the international sphere
itself, this work will be of great interest to all scholars of
international relations, international security and development.
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