{"product_id":"beyond-international-intervention-katarina-kusic-9780472057351","title":"Beyond International Intervention: Politics of Improvement in Serbia","description":"Studies of statebuilding and peacebuilding have been criticized for their disregard of people living the consequences of intervention projects. \u003ci\u003eBeyond International Intervention\u003c\/i\u003e takes on the task of engaging with spaces and peoples not usually present in IR scholarship to rethink the very concept of \"intervention\" by paying close attention to how people actually experience and make sense of those efforts. In particular, the book offers a detailed engagement with ethnographic fieldwork in two policy areas in Serbia--agricultural policy and non-formal youth education. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e By engaging with subjects, the book not only enhances our understanding of intervention, but also uncovers the limitations of the concept. Katarina Kusic argues that the concept limits what we can observe and theorize, and it prevents researchers from engaging with the people living in spaces of intervention as coeval political subjects. As an alternative, she proposes to foreground improvement over \"intervention.\" This reorientation enables researchers to trace hierarchies beyond the local\/international dichotomy, expands fields of visibility beyond those prescribed by interventions themselves, and seriously considers the contradictions at the heart of liberalism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Katarina Kusic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0472057359\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472057351\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/27\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.96h x 6.16w x 0.59d","brand":"Katarina Kusic","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46747793031423,"sku":"9780472057351","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9f719853-edc0-4481-8987-6103f9b6bcb3.jpg?v=1743584750","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/beyond-international-intervention-katarina-kusic-9780472057351","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}