International Leviathans

Prof. Nicolas Lemay-Hébert is a Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies and the Executive Director of the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) at the University of Manchester (UK). His latest books include Normalization inWorld Politics (with G. Visoka, 2022), and The Law and Practiceof Peacekeeping (with R. Freedman and S. Wills, 2021).

• List of abbreviations; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Sovereignty, political authority and accountability; 3. Counties under trust – the mandate system and the trusteeship council; 4. The league of nations' experiments at international administration; 5. Unfulfilled mandates – analysing united nations peace operations; 6. Civilian administration in the Congo; 7. Practices of sovereignty in Kosovo; 8. Practices of sovereignty in Timor-Leste; 9. Practices of sovereignty in Haiti; 10. Practices of sovereign accountability for a new era of interventions.

'By zooming in on UN transitional administrations, the book investigates broader dynamics in international politics and law. It is a story about the politicisation of international bureaucracies, the transformation of policies during implementation, and the interplay between local, national, and global governance. It is one of the best books on international organisations ever written, unique in its longue durée view.' Kseniya Oksamytna, Reader in International Politics, City St. George's, University of London. Author of Advocacy and Change in International Organizations: Communication, Protection, and Reconstruction in UN Peacekeeping (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023)