Exit Strategies and State Building - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 019976011X ISBN 13: 9780199760114

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2012

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Richard Caplan is Professor of International Relations at Oxford University. He is the author of International Governance of War-Torn Territories: Rule and Reconstruction (Oxford University Press) and Europe and the Recognition of New States in Yugoslavia (Cambridge University Press).

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 019976011X
• ISBN 13: 9780199760114
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Caplan Richard