Overview
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.
- | Author: David Chandler
- | Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
- | Publication Date: Sep 01, 2006
- | Number of Pages: 240 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0745324282
- | ISBN-13: 9780745324289
