Empire in Denial : The Politics of State-Building PDF
by David Chandler
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This book argues that state-building, as it is currently conceived, does not work.
In the 1990s, interventionist policies challenged the rights of individual states to self-governance.
Today, non-western states are more likely to be feted by international institutions offering programmes of poverty-reduction, democratisation and good governance.
States without the right of self-government will always lack legitimate authority.
The international policy agenda focuses on bureaucratic mechanisms, which can only institutionalise divisions between the West and the non-West and are unable to overcome the social and political divisions of post-conflict states.
Highlighting the dangers of current policy - including the redefinition of sovereignty, and the subsequent erosion of ties linking power and accountability.
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- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:Pluto Press
- Publication Date:20/07/2006
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- ISBN:9781849642873
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:Pluto Press
- Publication Date:20/07/2006
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- ISBN:9781849642873