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This volume provides a comparative study of exit with regard to international operations of a state-building nature. The essays focus on the empirical experiences of, and scholarly and policy questions associated with, exit in relation to four families of experience: colonial administrations, peace support operations, international territorial administrations, and transformative military occupations

This volume examines the issue of state building in international politics both historically and contemporarily. Developing and applying new theoretical approaches to state building, it also draws on case studies including Afghanistan, Somalia, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Rwanda.

State-building im Sinne externer Interventionen zur Stärkung fragiler Staaten ist zu einer zentralen Herausforderung der internationalen Politik geworden. In Deutschland zeigt sich dies insbesondere an der Afghanistan-Debatte. Umso überraschender ist es, dass bislang noch kein Vergleich der US-geführten Afghanistan-Intervention mit der sowjetischen Afghanistan-Intervention aus der Perspektive des state-building vorgenommen wurde – trotz der strukturellen Ähnlichkeiten. Mit der Zielsetzung, die Erfolgsbedingungen von state-building systematischer zu ergründen, untersucht Martin Kipping die sowjetischen und die US-geführten state-building Bemühungen in Afghanistan in drei zentralen Bereichen: im Sicherheitssektor, im Fiskalwesen und im Bereich der Herrschaftslegitimation. Fragen des "sequencing" von Interventionen und des sogenannten "ownership" der lokalen Akteure stehen dabei im Mittelpunkt der Analyse. Die Untersuchung zeigt Ursachen für Misserfolge aber auch Erfolge beider Interventionen in den drei untersuchten Bereichen auf. Im Fazit formuliert der Autor Empfehlungen für die weitere state-building Forschung sowie mögliche operative Konsequenzen

Fragile states pose major development and security challenges. Considerable international resources are therefore devoted to state-building and institutional strengthening in fragile states, with generally mixed results. This volume explores how unpacking the concept of fragility and studying its dimensions and forms can help to build policy-relevant understandings of how states become more resilient and the role of aid therein. It highlights the particular challenges for donors in dealing with 'chronically' (as opposed to 'temporarily') fragile states and those with weak legitimacy, as well as how unpacking fragility can provide traction on how to take 'local context' into account. Three chapters present new analysis from innovative initiatives to study fragility and fragile state transitions in cross-national perspective. Four chapters offer new focused analysis of selected countries, drawing on comparative methods and spotlighting the role of aid versus historical, institutional and other factors. It has become a truism that one-size-fits-all policies do not work in development, whether in fragile or non-fragile states. This is should not be confused with a broader rejection of 'off-the-rack' policy models that can then be further adjusted in particular situations. Systematic thinking about varieties of fragility helps us to develop this range, drawing lessons – appropriately – from past experience. This book was originally published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly, and is available online as an Open Access monograph at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351630337.

"State-Building" ist eine in jüngster Zeit häufig angewandte, aber auch von vielfältigen Schwierigkeiten und Spannungsfeldern geprägte Politik. Die im vorliegenden Band vorgenommene gründliche Untersuchung der historischen und theoretischen Entwicklungen sowie der verschiedenen nicht immer unproblematischen Eigenschaften von "State-Building" dient einem vertieften Verständnis. Das von der Autorin entwickelte Raster der zentralen Staatsfunktionen erlaubt, Tätigkeiten und Programme einzelner "State-Building"-Akteure wie auch ganze Länderoperationen abzubilden, was ihre gezieltere Ausrichtung und Koordination ermöglicht. Damit steht ein flexibles und anwendungsfreundliches Instrument für die Evaluation und Gestaltung von "State-Building" zur Verfügung. Die Autorin studierte Staatswissenschaften mit Vertiefungsrichtung internationale Beziehungen in St. Gallen, Schweiz. 2004 Lizentiat, 2008 Promotion an der Universität St. Gallen

Cover -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Institutional Origins and Economic Outcomes -- 2. State Building and the Origins of Institutional Profiles -- 3. Constructing Coalitions and Building States: Turkey -- 4. Constructing Coalitions and Building States: Syria -- 5. Precocious Keynesianism in Practice -- 6. Elite Cohesion and State Building in East Asia -- 7. The Collective Dilemmas of Late Development -- 8. The Developmental Consequences of Precocious Keynesianism -- 9. Pathways from Precocious Keynesianism -- 10. Theory and Method Reconsidered -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y

Truth Commissions and State Building demonstrates that the work of both institutions is interlinked and intrinsic to reform in post-conflict and post-authoritarian settings. Chapters examine truth commissions as transitional justice mechanisms for civic inclusion, identity formation, institutional reform, and nation-(re)building.

How can fragmented, divided societies that are not immediately compatible with centralised statehood best adjust to state structures? This book employs both comparative constitutional law and comparative politics, as it proposes the idea of a 'constituent process', whereby public participation in constitution making plays a positive role in state building. This can help to foster a sense of political community and produce a constitution that enhances the legitimacy and effectiveness of state institutions because a liberal-local hybrid can emerge to balance international liberal practices with local customary ones. This book represents a sustained attempt to examine the role that public participation has played during state building and the consequences it has had for the performance of the state. It is also the first attempt to conduct a detailed empirical study of the role played by the liberal-local-hybrid approach in state building

How can fragmented, divided societies that are not immediately compatible with centralised statehood best adjust to state structures? This book employs both comparative constitutional law and comparative politics, as it proposes the idea of a 'constituent process', whereby public participation in constitution making plays a positive role in state building. This can help to foster a sense of political community and produce a constitution that enhances the legitimacy and effectiveness of state institutions because a liberal-local hybrid can emerge to balance international liberal practices with local customary ones. This book represents a sustained attempt to examine the role that public participation has played during state building and the consequences it has had for the performance of the state. It is also the first attempt to conduct a detailed empirical study of the role played by the liberal-local-hybrid approach in state building.

Abstracts
Since the mid-2000s, state-building in Somaliland has emerged as a complex mixture of coexisting, competing programs, political aspirations, and foreign agendas. This article applies a dialectical approach to focus on the scalar relations among actors and models of capacity-building, from programs' design to their implementation. Drawing on science and technology studies, I use the term "complexities" to describe the "multiplicities" of programs, actors, and different ways of ordering that coexist and overlap, sometimes in tension among them, other times in coordination. Specifically, this article examines two approaches to state-building in Somaliland: the United Nations Development Program's institution-building and US Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded stabilization programs. Going beyond fixed binaries, such as international and local, homogenous and hybrid, state-building and state-formation, this article observes how these dichotomies are formed and how, rather than being separate, they combine together, generating techno-political arrangements. Somaliland's complexity is made up of techno-political arrangements that are coproduced by both technical expertise and national political aspirations. Technical capacity-building programs, such as the redesign of the Somalia Institutional Development Project (SIDP), the creation of Somaliland's National Development Plan (NDP), and the allocation of USAID's grants, have become the terrain for political claims over the redistribution of resources and the control of state institutions.

Abstract: Thomas Carothers' "The 'Sequencing Fallacy" is largely correct in its criticisms of the argument that democratic reforms ought to be delayed until after a liberal rule of law and economic growth have been achieved. However, Carothers does not take sufficiently into account the need to create a coherent nation as the beginning point of the state-building process, something that usually requires changing borders or moving populations and has seldom in human history been accomplished without violence. The norm prohibiting such changes in Africa has in effect prohibited the sequencing of state-building and both rule of law and democracy there, contributing in some measure to state weakness.

State-building—the creation of new governmental institutions and the strengthening of existing ones—is a crucial global issue. Weak or failed states are at the root of many of the world's most serious problems, from poverty and AIDS, to drug trafficking and terrorism, to the failure of democracies. While we know much about state-building, there is much that we do not know, particularly about transferring strong institutions to developing countries. We know how to transfer resources, people, and technology, but well-functioning public institutions require habits of mind and operate in complex ways that resist being moved. This is an area on which much more thought, attention, and research must be focused.