Exit Strategies and State Building

Richard Caplan

ISBN 10: 0199760128 / ISBN 13: 9780199760121

Published by Oxford University Press Inc, US, 2012

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In Exit Strategies and State Building, fifteen of the world's best scholars and practitioners of peace building focus on relevant historical and contemporary cases to provide a comprehensive overview of this issue. The book identifies four basic types of international operations where state-building has been a major objective--colonial administrations, peacekeeping operations, international administrations, and military occupations. Editor Richard Caplan and his contributors cover a variety of topics, from broad-ranging studies of exit in many types of state-building operations, to focused studies on specific historical cases, to thematic analyses under frameworks such as economics and global international relations. 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 a unique perspective on the realities of military and political intervention. Given the twenty-first century trend toward international intervention the world over , Exit Strategies and State Building sheds more light on what is not merely an academic issue, but a pressing global policy concern.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Exit Strategies and State Building
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, US
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199760128
• ISBN 13: 9780199760121
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 23.4W x 15.6H x 1.98D centimeters 23.4 centimeters width by 15.6 centimeters height by 1.98 centimeters depth
• Weight: 454 grams

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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.

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).