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This book analyses the changing dynamics of sovereignty resulting
from contemporary international state-building interventions. It
aims to highlight how the exercise of 'exceptional' forms of power
by intervening agencies impacts on the sovereign capacity of
intervened states. Drawing upon in-depth analyses of three case
studies - Kosovo, East Timor and the Kurdistan Regional Government,
the book shifts the focus of the debate to the nature of
contemporary intervention as an act of statemaking, and argues that
foreign intervention changes the dynamics of political power upon
which sovereignty is structured. At the same time, it reveals how
intervention reproduces the imposed conditions of international
state-making, thus permanently internalising external regulatory
mechanisms. International intervention, in other words, becomes the
constitutive element of governance in the newly created state. This
book will be of much interest to students of statebuilding, war and
conflict studies, global governance, security studies and IR.
This book analyses the changing dynamics of sovereignty resulting
from contemporary international state-building interventions. It
aims to highlight how the exercise of 'exceptional' forms of power
by intervening agencies impacts on the sovereign capacity of
intervened states. Drawing upon in-depth analyses of three case
studies - Kosovo, East Timor and the Kurdistan Regional Government,
the book shifts the focus of the debate to the nature of
contemporary intervention as an act of statemaking, and argues that
foreign intervention changes the dynamics of political power upon
which sovereignty is structured. At the same time, it reveals how
intervention reproduces the imposed conditions of international
state-making, thus permanently internalising external regulatory
mechanisms. International intervention, in other words, becomes the
constitutive element of governance in the newly created state. This
book will be of much interest to students of statebuilding, war and
conflict studies, global governance, security studies and IR.
This study argues there are two separate but interacting processes
involved in post-conflict settings: (re)building the state and
(re)building the nation. Much of the literature, however, has
treated post-conflict reconstruction as a single and objective
process of organisational and functional structuring that
overlooked the potential and actual interactions and contradictions
within and between these two very different but inter-related
processes taking place during the course of post-conflict recovery.
These processes are not neutral or straight-forward but involve
highly sensitive, power-driven institutional and societal
undertakings that are related to the definition of the state as a
political and cultural community. They entail a political and
social (re)structuring that is closely linked with the pursuit and
distribution of power. The simultaneous undertaking of
democratisation that requires the redistribution of power and
interests through public participation and contestation tends to
further complicate these already sensitive processes.
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