The new protectorates : international tutelage and the making of liberal states

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The new protectorates : international tutelage and the making of liberal states

James Mayall, Ricardo Soares De Oliveira, editors

Hurst & Co., 2011

  • : pbk
  • : hardback

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-367) and index

Contents of Works

  • Protectorates new and old : a concenptual critique / William Bain
  • The European empires and international order : model or trap? / James Mayall
  • Africa and trusteeship in the modern global order / Christopher Clapham
  • Paternal authority, civilized state : China's evolving attitude towards international trusteeships / Shogo Suzuki
  • India and the challenge of the new protectorates / Aswini Ray
  • The European "pull" in the Balkans / Spyros Economides
  • US foreign policy and the new protectorates in historical perspective / Stefan Halper
  • Peace operations and modern protectorates : the logic of successful failure / Wolfgang Seibel
  • The normative underpinnings of the UN Peacebuilding Commission / Richard Caplan and Richard Ponzio
  • Policing the neo-imperial frontier : CIVPOL missions in the new protectorates / Michael Boyle
  • The political economy of protectorates and "post-conflict" intervention / Mats Berdal and David Keen
  • Civil-military relations in the new protectorate / John Drewienkiewicz
  • Struggling for government leadership : the relationship between Afghan and international actors in post-2001 Afghanistan / Clare Lockhart
  • The new protectorates : statebuilding and legitimacy / Dominik Zaum

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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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