Empire in Denial: The Politics of State-Building (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780745324289)

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.

Author: David Chandler
ISBN-10: 0745324282
ISBN-13: 9780745324289
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2006
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.54h x 5.36w x 0.52d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2007 pg. 181