The Dilemmas of Statebuilding

Paris, Roland; Sisk, Timothy D.

doi:10.4324/9780203884836

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“…These stipulations might appear fairly obvious, and they mirror the conundrums of conducting military peacekeeping under conditions of uncertain consent or co-operation in intra-state settings. However, while the latter have extensively been analyzed (Bellamy and Williams 2010;Sloan 2011;Tsagourias 2007;White 2015), the degree to which civilian peace support activities are hampered by parallel dynamics and the implications of IGO dependence on target state governments for conducting peacebuilding without Security Council backing have rarely been systematically assessed (Barnett and Zürcher 2009;Lake 2016).…”

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Can Intergovernmental Organizations Be Peacebuilders in Intra-State War?

Warnecke

2020

Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding

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This article examines the sources of authority of intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) conducting peacebuilding independently of peace operations. Expanding Inis Claude's notion of the two identities of the UN, the article suggests re-imagining the state/ non-state divide in international organization by distinguishing between governmental and non-governmental sources of authority, rather than between different types of organizations. Similar to international non-governmental organizations, IGOs depend on moral and expert credibility as non-state sources of authority in peacebuilding. This reliance and the in-built progovernment bias curtail their ability to engage in transformative peacebuilding, rendering it likely that IGO interventions contribute to maintaining existing power imbalances.

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Can Intergovernmental Organizations Be Peacebuilders in Intra-State War?

Warnecke

2020

Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding

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“…The contemporary attention to state-building is rooted in discourses about state fragility and failure, which legitimizes interventions to strengthen state authority and political stability (Call, 2008;Jarstad & Sisk, 2008;Paris, 2004). Snyder (2007a, 2007b) thus argue that democratization should be sequenced in the sense that institutions to secure political stability and rule of law should precede political liberalization in order to reduce the likelihood of destabilizing social protests and conflicts (see also Fukuyama, 2014;Paris & Sisk, 2009). In this context, it can also be observed that developmental state capacity building has gained increased attention among aid donors, as a strategic intervention to create conducive conditions for peace and democracy in conflict-ridden societies (Carothers & De Gramont, 2013;Chandler, 2010;Duffield, 2001).…”

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Democratization in the Global South: From democratic transitions to transformative democratic politics

Stokke

2018

Geography Compass

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Democracy has attained a hegemonic position both as a normative ideal and as the dominant form of government, but there are growing concerns about democratic decline and crisis. The numerical growth of democracies has slowed down, and there have been some reversals from democratic to authoritarian rule in recent years. Nevertheless, the primary concern is about the substance of formal democracies, especially as recent democratic transitions have tended to produce depoliticized democracies and hybrid forms of rule rather than substantive democracy. This article uses the growth and decline of democracy as an occasion to review the current state of democracy in the world, discusses the links between the modality of democratic transition and problems of post‐transition democratic substance, and examines competing approaches to democratic deepening. A case is made for shifting the perspective on democratization, from democratic transitions to the open‐ended politics of substantial democratization. This means that the analytical approach should be broadened from elitist institutional design for electoral democracy to transformative democratic politics. The article presents this line of argument and provides brief illustrations based on recent transitions in the Global South.

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“…Not surprisingly, the literature on building sustainable peace tends to put state-building front and centre. 10 Several articles in this collection illustrate the legacies of war-related institutional adaptations and particularities for post-war crime. Jayasundara-Smits, 11 for example, illustrates the links between war economies and current crime in Sri Lanka.…”

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Understanding the relation between war economies and post-war crime

Kurtenbach

Rettberg

2018

Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal

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Even when armed conflicts formally end, the transition to peace is not clear-cut. Mounting evidence suggests that it is rather 'unlikely to see a clean break from violence to consent, from theft to production, from repression to democracy, or from impunity to accountability'. The transition out of war is a complex endeavour, interrelated in many cases with other transformations such as changes in the political regime (democratisation) and in the economy (opening of markets to globalisation). In addition, in the same way as wars and conflicts reflect the societies they befall, postwar orders may replicate and perpetuate some of the drivers of war-related violence, such as high levels of instability, institutional fragility, corruption, and inequality. Thus, even in the absence of a formal relapse into war and the remobilisation of former insurgents, many transitional contexts are marked by the steady and ongoing reconfiguration of criminal and illegal groups and practices.

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The Dilemmas of Statebuilding

Cited by 371 publications

References 4 publications

Can Intergovernmental Organizations Be Peacebuilders in Intra-State War?

Can Intergovernmental Organizations Be Peacebuilders in Intra-State War?

Democratization in the Global South: From democratic transitions to transformative democratic politics

Understanding the relation between war economies and post-war crime

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