Handbook on Intervention and Statebuilding

This innovative Handbook offers a new perspective on the cutting-edge conceptual advances that have shaped - and continue to shape - the field of intervention and statebuilding. Bringing together leading global scholars, the Handbook on Intervention and Statebuilding offers a cross-cutting perspective on a wide array of themes. Chapters cover democracy promotion, transitional justice and humanitarianism, as well as the involvement of drones and cyber technology in conflicts. Employing state-of-the-art perspectives on the most crucial themes, this Handbook explores issues at the heart of contemporary statebuilding. This Handbook will be critical reading for researchers at all levels in the broad field of international relations and peace and conflict studies. Upper-level students of political science will also benefit from the breadth of topics covered.

Table of Contents:
Contents: 1 Introduction to the Handbook on Intervention and Statebuilding: moving beyond the current orthodoxy 1 Nicolas Lemay-Hébert 2 Intervention and statebuilding beyond the human 10 David Chandler 3 Knowledge, expertise and the politics of intervention and statebuilding 19 Berit Bliesemann de Guevara and Roland Kostić 4 Post-conflict reconstruction, the local, and the Indigenous 30 Elisa Randazzo 5 Data in the context of intervention and statebuilding 41 Isabel Rocha de Siqueira 6 The ambiguity of statebuilding 50 Florian P. Kühn 7 International statebuilding interventions and the politics of scale 61 Shahar Hameiri and Fabio Scarpello 8 Intervening in a diverse world: revisiting the ‘problem’ of difference in international statebuilding 71 Pol Bargués-Pedreny and Xavier Mathieu 9 Decolonial ‘interventions’? Potentials and challenges of decolonial perspectives 82 Philipp Lottholz 10 Democracy promotion and statebuilding 93 Sonja Grimm 11 Post-conflict statebuilding as contentious politics 104 Outi Donovan 12 State formation in the context of hybrid political orders 113 Volker Boege 13 The everyday politics of international intervention 124 Janosch Neil Kullenberg 14 Non-state actors, service delivery and statebuilding 137 Claire Mcloughlin 15 Clear, hold, build … a ‘local’ state: counterinsurgency and territorial orders in Somalia 151 Louise Wiuff Moe 16 International political sociology of interventions 161 Médéric Martin-Mazé 17 From international justice and statebuilding to international justice as statebuilding 175 Sara Dezalay 18 Mapping the nexus of transitional justice and peacebuilding 184 Catherine Baker and Jelena Obradovic-Wochnik 19 Civilian protection in the context of interventions 198 Cecilia Jacob 20 The spatial dimensions of statebuilding 210 Annika Björkdahl and Stefanie Kappler 21 The temporal dimension in the study of interventions 220 Róisín Read and Roger Mac Ginty 22 Statebuilding and narrative 231 Josefin Graef and Raquel da Silva 23 Myths and the international politics of intervention and statebuilding 240 Berit Bliesemann de Guevara and Catherine Goetze 24 Cyber security: states, development and intervention 249 Kristan Stoddart 25 The plain drone, the armed drone and human security 260 Astri Suhrke 26 New forms of intervention: the case of humanitarian refugee biometrics 270 Katja Lindskov Jacobsen 27 Transnational environmental crime: from securitization to intervention and statebuilding 282 Lorraine Elliott 28 The aid bunker: security risk management in conflict zones 294 Florian Weigand 29 From gendered war to gendered peace? Feminist perspectives on international intervention in sites of conflict 303 Maria O’Reilly 30 Romanticising the locals and the externals? Identifying challenges to a gendered SSR 314 Nina Wilén 31 The political economy of gender and peacebuilding 323 Yasmin Chilmeran and Jacqui True Index 339

About the Author :
Edited by Nicolas Lemay-Hébert, University of Manchester, UK

Review :
‘Starting from the premise that international statebuilding efforts over the past three decades have relied on flawed theoretical assumptions and failed to achieve many of their objectives, this Handbook is a cornucopia of critical analyses and perspectives. With an emphasis on peace and conflict, it encompasses a wide array of international interventions where statebuilding is a component, like peacebuilding, military intervention, counterinsurgency, security sector reform, civilian protection, transitional justice, development and humanitarian action.’