Jennifer Milliken is Assistant Professor at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva. She is the author of The Social Construction of the Korean War: Conflict and its Possibilities (2001).

• Notes on Contributors. State Failure, State Collapse and State Reconstruction: Jennifer Milliken and Keith Krause, Graduate Institute of International Studies.Part I: States, Statebuilding and State Collapse:.1. Putting State Collapse in Context: History, Politics and the Genealogy of a Concept: Christopher Clapham, Lancaster University.2. State Collapse and Fresh Starts: Some Critical Reflections: Martin Doornbos, Institute of Social Studies.3.State Collapse and Implications for Peace-Building and Reconstruction: Alexandros Yannis, Graduate Institute of International Studies.Part II: Anatomies of Failure and Collapse:.4. Collapsing States and Non-Revolutionary Insurgencies: William Reno, Northwestern University.5. Rising From the Ashes? The Difficult Rebirth of the Georgian State: Spyros Demetriou, Graduate Institute of International Studies.6. Try Again, Fail Again? Adventures in State-Building in Afghanistan: Jonathon Goodhand and Christopher Cramer, SOAS.7. Africa: Private Military Intervention and Arms Proliferation in the Process of State Decay: Abdel-Fatau Musah, Centre for Democracy and Development.8. State Collapse as Business: The Role of Conflict Trade and the Emerging Control Agenda: Robert Neil Cooper, University of Plymouth.Part III: Relief and Reconstruction:.9. UNTAC in Cambodia: A New Model for Humanitarian Aid in Collapsed States?: Daniel Chong, School of International Service, American University.10. From East Timor to Participatory Intervention: Jarat Chopra, Brown University.11. Rebuilding State Institutions in Collapsed States: Marina Ottaway, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.12. Aid Conditionality as a Tool for Peacebuilding: Opportunities and Constraints: James Boyce, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.13. Reconstructing the Borderlands: Aid as a Relation of Global Governance: Mark Duffield, University of Leeds.Index.