The post-cold war years have witnessed an unprecedented involvement by the United Nations in the domestic affairs of states, to end conflicts and rebuild political and administrative institutions. International administrations established by the UN or Western states have exercised extensive executive, legislative, and judicial authority over post-conflict territories to facilitate institution building and provide for interim governance. This book is a study of the normative framework underlying the international community's statebuilding efforts. Through detailed case studies of policymaking by the international administrations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and East Timor, based on extensive interviews and work in the administrations, the book examines the nature of this normative framework, and highlights how norms shape the institutional choices of statebuilders, the relationship between international and local actors, and the exit strategies of international administrations. The book argues that a particular conception of sovereignty as responsibility has influenced the efforts of international administrations, and shows that their statebuilding activities are informed by the idea that post-conflict territories need to meet certain normative tests before they are considered legitimate internationally. The restructuring of political and administrative practices to help post-conflict territories to meet these tests creates a sovereignty paradox: international administrations compromise one element of sovereignty--the right to self-government--in order to implement domestic reforms to legitimize the authority of local political institutions, and thus strengthen their sovereignty. In the light of the governance and development record of the three international administrations, the book assesses the promises and the pathologies of statebuilding, and develops recommendations to improve their performance.
Author(s): Dominik Zaum
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 297
Tags: Международные отношения;Международные отношения;
Contents......Page 10
List of Figures......Page 12
List of Acronyms......Page 13
Why Study Statebuilding and International Administrations?......Page 16
Methodological Challenges......Page 21
Outline of the Argument......Page 30
PART I. CONCEPTS AND THEORIES......Page 40
1. Sovereignty in International Society......Page 42
The Problematic Concept of Sovereignty......Page 43
Towards a New ‘Standard of Civilization’?......Page 53
2. International Administrations in International Society......Page 66
A History of International Administrations......Page 67
Sources of Authority of International Administrations......Page 73
International Administrations in International Society......Page 85
PART II. CASE STUDIES......Page 94
3. Statebuilding in Bosnia and Hercegovina......Page 96
Background......Page 97
Policymaking in Bosnia and Hercegovina I: The Reform of the Payment System and the Dismantling of the Payment Bureaux......Page 113
Policymaking in Bosnia and Hercegovina II: The Reform of the State-level Civil Service......Page 122
Sovereignty and Statebuilding in BiH......Page 129
4. Statebuilding in Kosovo......Page 142
Background......Page 143
Policymaking in Kosovo I: Human Rights and the Reform of the Judicial System......Page 159
Policymaking in Kosovo II: Property Rights and Privatization......Page 168
Sovereignty and Statebuilding in Kosovo......Page 181
5. Statebuilding in East Timor......Page 195
Background......Page 196
Policymaking in East Timor I: Human Rights and the Reform of the Judicial System......Page 210
Policymaking in East Timor II: Rebuilding the Civil Service......Page 221
Sovereignty and Statebuilding in East Timor......Page 228
6. The Sovereignty Paradox......Page 241
Sovereignty in International Society......Page 242
International Society and International Administrations......Page 252
Conclusion......Page 259
Bibliography......Page 264
B......Page 289
C......Page 290
E......Page 291
I......Page 292
K......Page 293
P......Page 294
S......Page 295
U......Page 296
Z......Page 297
