The Contentious Politics of Statebuilding: Strategies and by Outi Keränen

The booklet examines the dynamics among household and overseas statebuilding actors.

While the dynamics among "local" and "international" statebuilding actors were formerly theorised via options corresponding to hybridity and friction, there were few makes an attempt to strengthen conceptual instruments for the empirical research of statebuilding dynamics. by means of drawing on a suite of options and mechanisms constructed within the Contentious Politics literature, this booklet fills this hole. It deploys innovations corresponding to political chance constructions, mobilizing constructions and framing to track the interactions among household and foreign statebuilding actors with regards to post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina. The research identifies a collection of practices working at numerous domain names of Bosnia’s society—institutional, symbolic and discursive—through which household statebuilding actors search to steer the internationally-driven statebuilding strategy. Responses by means of the foreign statebuilding actors to such actions have frequently ended in additional rivalry. The publication argues that the dynamics among the various statebuilding actors and agendas within the Bosnian case are characterized not just through clash and rivalry but in addition symbiosis wherein the presence of non-conforming neighborhood actors justifies the extension of overseas mandates whereas the continuing foreign presence generates additional contestation. those observations and the conceptual instruments brought within the publication upload to our knowing of the customarily gradual and exhausting statebuilding tactics in post-conflict societies.

This e-book might be of a lot curiosity to scholars of statebuilding, peacebuilding, ecu politics and diplomacy in general.