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Liberal Statebuilding Interventions and the Monopoly on Violence
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Other Titles: | Liberale Statebuilding-Interventionen und das Gewaltmonopol | Authors: | Brast, Benjamin | Supervisor: | Schlichte, Klaus | 1. Expert: | Mayer, Peter | 2. Expert: | Zürcher, Christoph | Abstract: | Since the end of the Cold War, liberal statebuilding interventions in conflict-ridden societies have become a major feature of the international system. Although these interventions seek to export liberal statehood, they often fail to establish the minimum feature of the modern state: The monopoly on the use of force. The dissertation seeks to explain the outcomes of liberal statebuilding interventions in terms of violence regulation. Using a novel process-tracing method, the study looks for violence monopolization patterns within and across the cases of Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Sierra Leone. The findings indicate that a liberal statebuilding intervention leads to a state monopoly on violence when the intervention is supported by key regional actors and when the target society had a history of strong statehood prior to civil war. |
Keywords: | Statebuilding, State Formation, Intervention, Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sierra Leone, Process-Tracing, Monopoly on Violence, Violence | Issue Date: | 4-Sep-2015 | Type: | Dissertation | URN: | urn:nbn:de:gbv:46-00104763-14 | Institution: | Universität Bremen | Faculty: | FB8 Sozialwissenschaften |
Appears in Collections: | Dissertationen |
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