Ebook Routledge Studies in Intervention and Statebuilding Ser.: International Intervention and State-Making : How Exception Became the Norm in MOBI, FB2, DOC
9781138779518 1138779512 This book analyses the changing dynamics of sovereignty resulting from contemporary international state-building interventions. It aims to highlight how the exercise of exceptional forms of power by intervening agencies impacts on the sovereign capacity of intervened states. Drawing upon in-depth analyses of three case studies Kosovo, East Timor and the Kurdistan Regional Government, the book shifts the focus of the debate to the nature of contemporary intervention as an act of statemaking, and argues that foreign intervention changes the dynamics of political power upon which sovereignty is structured. At the same time, it reveals how intervention reproduces the imposed conditions of international state-making, thus permanently internalising external regulatory mechanisms. International intervention, in other words, becomes the constitutive element of governance in the newly created state. This book will be of much interest to students of statebuilding, war and conflict studies, global governance, security studies and IR.", This book offers an analysis of the changing dynamics of sovereignty resulting from international interventions in fragile states, demonstrating the symbiotic relationship between foreign interveners and domestic social groups. Contemporary policies and practices of long-term international engagement in the construction of democratic state capacities have been operationalised on the basis of the 'exceptionalism' argument: that is, the involvement of foreign agencies in the domestic institutional and policy-making processes of these states is seen as a necessary exception to the norm (of sovereign equality of states) because it is brought about by the need to contain or control global security risks (such as terrorism, crimes, illegal migration) arising from the weak governance capacity of 'fragile' or 'failing' states.While 'exceptionalism' has constituted the discursive and operational basis of these interventions, it has either been excluded from policy and academic discussions on state capacity-building or referred only to explain the pursuit of such policies in the context of the 'war on terror' following the 9/11 attacks Rather than emphasising how the exercise of 'exceptional' forms of power by intervening agencies undermines the sovereign capacity of intervened states, this book shifts the focus of the debate to the nature of contemporary intervention as an act of statemaking. Drawing upon in-depth analyses of three case studies - Kosovo, East Timor and the Kurdistan Regional Government - it argues that contemporary international intervention reflects two trends. First, foreign intervention creates new political and institutional realities in intervened states. These newly created states of affairs generate new opportunities for previously oppressed social groups (such as Kosovo Albanians, East Timorese and Kurds in northern Iraq) to achieve their long-standing political aspirations, including autonomy and territorial secession.Second, intervention turns into the norm through prolonged practices of international involvement in the form of governmental and developmental capacity-building. International intervention, in other words, becomes the constitutive element of governance in the newly created state. This book will be of much interest to students of statebuilding, war and conflict studies, global governance, security studies and IR.
9781138779518 1138779512 This book analyses the changing dynamics of sovereignty resulting from contemporary international state-building interventions. It aims to highlight how the exercise of exceptional forms of power by intervening agencies impacts on the sovereign capacity of intervened states. Drawing upon in-depth analyses of three case studies Kosovo, East Timor and the Kurdistan Regional Government, the book shifts the focus of the debate to the nature of contemporary intervention as an act of statemaking, and argues that foreign intervention changes the dynamics of political power upon which sovereignty is structured. At the same time, it reveals how intervention reproduces the imposed conditions of international state-making, thus permanently internalising external regulatory mechanisms. International intervention, in other words, becomes the constitutive element of governance in the newly created state. This book will be of much interest to students of statebuilding, war and conflict studies, global governance, security studies and IR.", This book offers an analysis of the changing dynamics of sovereignty resulting from international interventions in fragile states, demonstrating the symbiotic relationship between foreign interveners and domestic social groups. Contemporary policies and practices of long-term international engagement in the construction of democratic state capacities have been operationalised on the basis of the 'exceptionalism' argument: that is, the involvement of foreign agencies in the domestic institutional and policy-making processes of these states is seen as a necessary exception to the norm (of sovereign equality of states) because it is brought about by the need to contain or control global security risks (such as terrorism, crimes, illegal migration) arising from the weak governance capacity of 'fragile' or 'failing' states.While 'exceptionalism' has constituted the discursive and operational basis of these interventions, it has either been excluded from policy and academic discussions on state capacity-building or referred only to explain the pursuit of such policies in the context of the 'war on terror' following the 9/11 attacks Rather than emphasising how the exercise of 'exceptional' forms of power by intervening agencies undermines the sovereign capacity of intervened states, this book shifts the focus of the debate to the nature of contemporary intervention as an act of statemaking. Drawing upon in-depth analyses of three case studies - Kosovo, East Timor and the Kurdistan Regional Government - it argues that contemporary international intervention reflects two trends. First, foreign intervention creates new political and institutional realities in intervened states. These newly created states of affairs generate new opportunities for previously oppressed social groups (such as Kosovo Albanians, East Timorese and Kurds in northern Iraq) to achieve their long-standing political aspirations, including autonomy and territorial secession.Second, intervention turns into the norm through prolonged practices of international involvement in the form of governmental and developmental capacity-building. International intervention, in other words, becomes the constitutive element of governance in the newly created state. This book will be of much interest to students of statebuilding, war and conflict studies, global governance, security studies and IR.