This book argues that state-building, as it is currently conceived, does not work.
In the 1990s, interventionist policies challenged the rights of individual states to self-governance. Today, non-western states are more likely to be feted by international institutions offering programmes of poverty-reduction, democratisation and good governance.
States without the right of self-government will always lack legitimate authority. The international policy agenda focuses on bureaucratic mechanisms, which can only institutionalise divisions between the West and the non-West and are unable to overcome the social and political divisions of post-conflict states. Highlighting the dangers of current policy ? including the redefinition of sovereignty, and the subsequent erosion of ties linking power and accountability.
Empire in Denial Ebook
The Politics of State-Building
By: David Chandler
Publisher:
Pluto Press
Print ISBN: 9780745324289, 0745324282
eText ISBN: 9781849642873, 1849642877
Edition: 1st
Format: PDF
Available from $ 125.00 USD
SKU: 9781849642873
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