Exit Strategies and State Building [Paperback]

In the past two decades, states and multilateral organizations have devoted considerable resources toward efforts to stabilize peace and rebuild war-torn societies in places such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Kosovo, and Sierra Leone. Despite these prodigious efforts, there has been relatively little consideration of the critical questions arising from the end game of state-building operations. In Exit Strategies and State Building, sixteen leading scholars and practitioners focus on relevant historical and contemporary cases of exit to provide a comprehensive overview of this crucial issue. By examining the major challenges associated with the conclusion of international state-building operations and the requirements for the maintenance of peace in the period following exit, this book provides unique perspective on a critical aspect of military and political intervention. Deftly researched, Exit Strategies and State Building sheds new light on what is not merely an academic issue, but also a pressing global policy concern.

Contributors

Acknowledgments


1. Exit Strategies and State Building: Richard Caplan

Colonial Administrations
2. Exit and Colonial Administrations: John Darwin
3. Senegal: Anthony Chafer
4. Indonesia: Hendrik Spruyt

Peace Support Operations
5. Exit and Peace Support Operations: William J. Durch
6. Sierra Leone: A. Sarjoh Bah
7. Haiti: Johanna Mendelson Forman

International Administrations
8. Exit and International Administrations: Dominik Zaum
9. Kosovo: Ben Crampton
10. East Timor: Anthony Goldstone

Military Occupations
11. Exit and Military Occupations: Gregory H. Fox
12. Gaza: Joel Peters
13. Iraq: Toby Dodge

Thematic Issues
14. Competing Normative Visions of Exit: Ralph Wilde
15. The Political Economy of Exit: Michael Pugh
16. After Exit: The UN Peacebuilding Architecture: Richard Ponzio
17. Policy Implications: Richard Caplan

Index