By Dominik Zaum
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.
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