Statebuilding : Consolidating Peace After Civil War, Hardcover by Sisk, Timothy D., ISBN 0745661580, ISBN-13 9780745661582, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US

The teleological goal of international efforts to promote peace in countries recovering from civil war, argues Sisk (international studies, U. of Denver), is statebuilding, or "the creation or recovery of the authoritative, legitimate, and capable governance institutions that can provide for security and the necessary rule of law conditions for economic and social development." In this volume, he examines international experience with statebuilding in the post-Cold War era and assesses its main components and challenges. He focuses in particular on the thorny question of how external actors engage with essentially domestic questions of authority, legitimacy, and capacity, arguing that norm-driven actors such as the United Nations must balance deference to local agency with an assertive liberal interventionist agenda of promoting a human right-based approach to development and democracy. Distributed in the US by Wiley. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()