Handbook on Intervention and Statebuilding

Edited by Nicolas Lemay-Hébert, University of Manchester, UK

‘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.’

• Contents:1 Introduction to the Handbook on Intervention and Statebuilding: moving beyond the current orthodoxy 1Nicolas Lemay-Hébert2 Intervention and statebuilding beyond the human 10David Chandler3 Knowledge, expertise and the politics of intervention and statebuilding 19Berit Bliesemann de Guevara and Roland Kostić4 Post-conflict reconstruction, the local, and the Indigenous 30Elisa Randazzo5 Data in the context of intervention and statebuilding 41Isabel Rocha de Siqueira6 The ambiguity of statebuilding 50Florian P. Kühn7 International statebuilding interventions and the politics of scale 61Shahar Hameiri and Fabio Scarpello8 Intervening in a diverse world: revisiting the ‘problem’ of difference in international statebuilding 71Pol Bargués-Pedreny and Xavier Mathieu9 Decolonial ‘interventions’? Potentials and challenges of decolonial perspectives 82Philipp Lottholz10 Democracy promotion and statebuilding 93Sonja Grimm11 Post-conflict statebuilding as contentious politics 104Outi Donovan12 State formation in the context of hybrid political orders 113Volker Boege13 The everyday politics of international intervention 124Janosch Neil Kullenberg14 Non-state actors, service delivery and statebuilding 137Claire Mcloughlin15 Clear, hold, build … a ‘local’ state: counterinsurgency and territorial orders in Somalia 151Louise Wiuff Moe16 International political sociology of interventions 161Médéric Martin-Mazé17 From international justice and statebuilding to international justice as statebuilding 175Sara Dezalay18 Mapping the nexus of transitional justice and peacebuilding 184Catherine Baker and Jelena Obradovic-Wochnik 19 Civilian protection in the context of interventions 198Cecilia Jacob20 The spatial dimensions of statebuilding 210Annika Björkdahl and Stefanie Kappler21 The temporal dimension in the study of interventions 220Róisín Read and Roger Mac Ginty22 Statebuilding and narrative 231Josefin Graef and Raquel da Silva23 Myths and the international politics of intervention and statebuilding 240Berit Bliesemann de Guevara and Catherine Goetze24 Cyber security: states, development and intervention 249Kristan Stoddart25 The plain drone, the armed drone and human security 260Astri Suhrke26 New forms of intervention: the case of humanitarian refugee biometrics 270Katja Lindskov Jacobsen27 Transnational environmental crime: from securitization to intervention and statebuilding 282Lorraine Elliott28 The aid bunker: security risk management in conflict zones 294Florian Weigand29 From gendered war to gendered peace? Feminist perspectives on international intervention in sites of conflict 303Maria O’Reilly30 Romanticising the locals and the externals? Identifying challenges to a gendered SSR 314Nina Wilén31 The political economy of gender and peacebuilding 323Yasmin Chilmeran and Jacqui TrueIndex 339