Download The Sovereignty Paradox: The Norms and Politics of by Dominik Zaum PDF

By Dominik Zaum

The post-cold battle years have witnessed an unparalleled involvement by means of the United international locations within the household affairs of states, to finish conflicts and rebuild political and administrative associations. foreign administrations verified by way of the UN or Western states have exercised broad government, legislative, and judicial authority over post-conflict territories to facilitate establishment construction and supply for intervening time governance.

This ebook is a learn of the normative framework underlying the overseas community's statebuilding efforts. via distinct case reviews of policymaking by way of the overseas administrations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and East Timor, according to broad interviews and paintings within the administrations, the e-book examines the character of this normative framework, and highlights how norms form the institutional offerings of statebuilders, the connection among foreign and native actors, and the go out concepts of foreign administrations. The booklet argues specific belief of sovereignty as accountability has motivated the efforts of overseas administrations, and indicates that their statebuilding actions are expert by way of the concept post-conflict territories have to meet convinced normative assessments earlier than they're thought of valid across the world. The restructuring of political and administrative practices to assist post-conflict territories to fulfill those checks creates a sovereignty paradox: overseas administrations compromise one section of sovereignty--the correct to self-government--in order to enforce family reforms to legitimize the authority of neighborhood political associations, and hence develop their sovereignty.

within the gentle of the governance and improvement list of the 3 foreign administrations, the booklet assesses the guarantees and the pathologies of statebuilding, and develops techniques to enhance their performance.

Show description

Read Online or Download The Sovereignty Paradox: The Norms and Politics of International Statebuilding PDF

Best international affairs books

European and North American Policy Change: Drivers and Dynamics (Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science)

The problem of coverage dynamics is a key one in coverage reports and one that is especially amenable to comparative coverage learn. This edited quantity brings jointly a few of the prime students within the box to envision the definition, conceptualization and operationalization of coverage swap. Drawing on empirical fabrics from various longitudinal stories of Europe and North American coverage improvement, this booklet assesses a few of the significant current and unresolved matters presently demanding the self-discipline.

China and the European Union in Africa: Partners or Competitors?

China's upward push at the foreign scene over the last few years has correlated with its exponential monetary development. the eu Union (EU), the world's biggest improvement reduction supplier, has been feeling the warmth of Beijing's nearer ties with Africa. consequently, the EU's total policy-making in the direction of Africa has suffered from a lack of credibility and this has been additional uncovered either by way of the good fortune of China's investments in Africa, and by means of the beneficial reaction that China's funding proposals have acquired from African leaders.

Emancipatory International Relations: Critical Thinking in International Relations (New International Relations)

Diplomacy concept is witnessing a veritable explosion of works in the parts of modernism and postmodernism, but there was no try to examine those theories and their resources in keeping with a typical criterion or logical form. This author argues that whereas those pioneering, innovative and interesting theoretical works are disparate, in addition they percentage a typical thread that seeks to specific emancipatory pursuits for diplomacy.

America's Other Army: The U.S. Foreign Service and 21st-Century Diplomacy (Second Updated Edition)

"America's different military" brings the high-flying global of foreign international relations right down to earth and places a human face on a mysterious career that has passed through a dramatic transformation given that September eleven, 2001. during the tales of yankee diplomats, the booklet explains how their paintings impacts hundreds of thousands of individuals within the usa and around the globe on a daily basis, and the way it contributes on to U.

Extra resources for The Sovereignty Paradox: The Norms and Politics of International Statebuilding

Sample text

Download PDF sample

Rated 4.36 of 5 – based on 21 votes