Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. 1 Ending Wars, Building States 1
6. Part 1 Context
7. 2 The Politics of Security in Postconflict Statebuilding 25
8. 3 Participation and State Legitimation 49
9. 4 Peacebuilding and Public Finance 73
10. 5 Postconflict Economic Policy 103
11. 6 Justice and the Rule of Law 119
12. 7 Bottom-Up Statebuilding? 143
13. 8 Practical Approaches to Building State Institutions 163
14. Part 2 Cases
15. 9 Somalia: Governance vs. Statebuilding 187
16. 10 Palestine: Building Neither Peace Nor State 217
17. 11 Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Limits of Liberal Imperialism 249
18. 12 East Timor: Statebuilding Revisited 271
19. 13 Afghanistan: Nationally Led Statebuilding 303
20. 14 Liberia: The Risks of Rebuilding a Shadow State 335
21. Part 3 Conclusion
22. 15 Building States to Build Peace? 365
23. List of Acronyms 389
24. Bibliography 393
25. The Contributors 413
26. Index 417
27. About the Book 438