Introduction: Regulatory State Building and the Transformation of Statehood

Mitigating the Risk to Primitive Accumulation: State-building and the Logging Boom in Solomon Islands

“…4 This is not the only way of defining state capacity. Other approaches drawing on neo-Weberian ideas of functioning statehood are also common, but less so among practitioners (see Hameiri, 2010: Ch. 1).…”

“…State building -as a form of interventionism -has emerged out of the growing concern of the world's major governments and international organisations with the potential security risk presented by ''failed'' or ''fragile'' states, a trend given impetus in the new millennium by the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks in the USA and other high-profile bombings in Europe and Asia (Hameiri, 2010).…”

Rethinking the Peacebuilding Puzzle

“…10 These institutional outcomes need not necessarily reflect any particular set of interests -they can be compromises between actors 6 Acemoglu and Robinson 2012;Boix 2015;and North, Wallis, and Weingast 2009. 7 These exceptions include Boege, Brown, and Clements 2009;Hamieri 2010;and Paris 2004. 8 This definition of institutions follows the historical institutionalist perspective on institutions, for example in Pierson 1996;Pierson and Skocpol 2002;andThelen 1999.…”

Fighting for Liberal Peace in Mali? The Limits of International Military Intervention

“…Perhaps this international/local binary is too attractive to resist as it evokes an older key contradiction 'between the external imperialist(s) and the country united against it' (Charbonneau 2014, 623). Just as this imperial/(inter)national binary has worked historically and theoretically (in IR theory in particular) to obscure their interdependence and co-constitution (Walker 2010), the international/local dichotomy limits the analysis of the transformation of forms of political rule and statehood (Hameiri 2010). Moreover, the binary obscures the ways in which actors constitute themselves as 'local' or 'international' and how this process of constitution works to generate resources of power and new normative orders (Charbonneau 2012).…”