The New Protectorates: International Tutelage and the Making of Liberal States - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1849041261 ISBN 13 : 9781849041263

Editeur : C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, 2012

Synopsis

German troops fighting the Taliban in the Hindu Kush; EU judges sitting in courts in the Balkans; UN viceroys governing parts of Oceania; American occupation of the Middle East. Amid the myriad political experiences of the post-Cold War era, the historians of the future are likely to pay particular attention to attempts by outsiders to administer a host of post-conflict societies, to perform physical and social reconstruction, to establish functioning institutions, to open economies and, ultimately, to transform the 'maladjusted' political cultures of Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Few developments in the two decades after 1989 were as revealing of the character of the international system, of the gaps between liberal discourse and practice, and of the fleeting nature of the Western hegemonic moment. What made the new protectorates possible? What were they like as an actual political experience? How contradictory was its reception? Why was the process of governing others for their own good so flawed and the outcomes so disappointing? These are among the questions addressed by some of the leading authorities in the field, including Stefan Halper, Christopher Clapham, Mats Berdal and Richard Caplan. The book is divided into two parts. The first examines the historical background from which the new protectorates (Bosnia, Kosovo, East Timor, Iraq and Afghanistan) emerged and the dissonant reactions to their creation; the second analyses the experience of governance in the protectorates along several dimensions, ranging from United Nations involvement through problems of policing, civil-military relations, coordination between international forces and the local state to the sometimes perverse consequences of economic policy.

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À propos de l'auteur

James Mayall, FBA, is Emeritus Sir Patrick Sheehy Professor of International Relations, and Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University. Ricardo Soares de Oliveira is University Lecturer in Comparative Politics, University of Oxford, fellow of St PeterA s College, Oxford, and fellow of the Global Public Policy Institute, Berlin. He is the author of Oil and Politics in the Gulf of Guinea and co-editor of China Returns to Africa, both of which are published by Hurst.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1849041261
• ISBN 13: 9781849041263
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Éditeur: Mayall James, Soares De Oliviera Ricardo
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