Building States to Build Peace

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There is increasing consensus among scholars and policy analysts that successful peace building can occur only in the context of capable state institutions. But how can legitimate and sustainable states best be established in the aftermath of civil wars? And what role should international actors play in supporting the vital process? Addressing these questions, this state-of-the-art volume explores the core challenges involved in institutionalizing post conflict states. The combination of thematic chapters and in-depth case studies covers the full range of the most vexing and diverse problems confronting domestic and international actors seeking to build states while building peace. Table of Contents Charles T. Call is assistant professor of international relations at American University. Editor of Constructing Justice and Security After War, he has conducted field research on post conflict issues in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Central America, Haiti, Kosovo, and WestAfrica. Vanessa Wyeth is on the staff of the International Peace Institute, where she focuses on issues of state building and peace building. Prior to joining the IPI, she worked for the UN in Kosovo and conducted research Rwanda and Niger Table of Contents Foreword-Terje Rod Larsen. Ending Wars, Building States-Charles T. Call Part 1 CONTEXT The Politics of Security in Post conflict State building-Barnett R. Rubin Participation and State Legitimation-Katia Papagianni Peace building and Public Finance-Michael Carnahan and Clare Lockhart Postconflict Economic Policy-Paul Collier Justice and the Rule of Law-Erik G. Jensen Bottom-Up State building?-William Reno Practical Approaches to Building State Institutions-Sarah Cliffe and Nick Manning Part 2 CASES Somalia: Governance vs. State building-Kenneth Menkhaus Palestine: Building Neither Peace Nor State-Rex Brynen Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Limits of Liberal Imperialism-Marcus Cox East Timor: Statebuilding Revisted-Edit Bowles and Tanja Chopra Afghanistan: Nationally Led State building-Jake Sherman Liberia: The Risks of Rebuilding a Shadow State-Mike McGovern Part 3 CONCLUSION Building States to Build Peace?-Charles T. Call Bibliography The contributors Index