New Agendas in Statebuilding

Robert Egnell is Visiting Professor and Director of Teaching with the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University, USA. He is the author of Complex Peace Operations and Civil-Military Relations (Routledge 2009). Peter Haldén is a researcher in the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University, Sweden. He is the author of Stability without Statehood (Palgrave 2011).

• 1. Introduction: The Need for New Agendas in Statebuilding, Robert Egnell and Peter Haldén Part I: New Theoretical aPProaches to Statebuilding 2. Hybrid Statebuilding, Roger Mac Ginty 3. Against Endogeneity: The Systemic Preconditions of State-formation, Peter Haldén 4. Somalia: State ‘Failure’ and the Emergence of Hybrid Political Orders, Morten Boas 5. State Theory and Statebuilding, Lee Jones Part II: Revisiting Historical Cases of Statebuilding 6. The Improbably European State: Its Ideals Observed with Social Systems Theory, Gorm Harste 7. The Local Adaptation of Centralizing Politics: Hybrid Statebuilding in Sixteenth Century Sweden, Mats Hallenberg 8. Changing Perceptions of the Western Form of Government in Islamic Thought, Mohammad Fazlhashemi Part III: Strategic imperatives in Statebuilding 9. Exploring the Strategic logic of Withdrawal from Statebuilding Interventions: When is a State?, Jan Angstrom 10. In Our Image: Statebuilding Orthodoxy and the Afghan National Army, Adam Grissom 11. Winning legitimacy?: Counterinsurgency as the Military Approach to Statebuilding, Robert Egnell Conclusion 12. Towards New Agendas: Implications for the Theory and Practice of Statebuilding, Robert Egnell and Peter Haldén

'This book is highly recommended as a valuable contribution to the recently developing body of critical literature on conflict resolution, peace and state-building.'Bilge Yabanci, University of Bath, Journal of Conflict Transformation and Security