Intervention as Indirect Rule | Civil War and Statebuilding in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Alex Veit

ISBN 10: 3593393115 / ISBN 13: 9783593393117

Published by Campus Verlag, 2010

Intervention as Indirect Rule | Civil War and Statebuilding in the Democratic Republic of Congo | Alex Veit | Taschenbuch | Großformatiges Paperback. Klappenbroschur | 292 S. | Englisch | 2010 | Campus Verlag | EAN 9783593393117 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Beltz Verlagsgruppe GmbH & Co. KG, Werderstr. 10, 69469 Weinheim, info[at]campus[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu. Seller Inventory # 101064396

Synopsis:

In "Intervention as Indirect Rule", Alex Veit uses a close study of the district of Ituri in the Congo, a major battlefield and a laboratory for international intervention, to explore the micropolitics of warfare and statebuilding. Combining detailed firsthand empirical data with a historically informed analysis, Veit shows the effect that contemporary humanitarian interventions have on state-society relations. He also pays particular attention to the question of why the very organizations that should be helping with international statebuilding efforts - local authorities and civil society groups - so often turn out to be corrupt or hostile. Ultimately Veit argues that international intervention tends inadvertently to replicate - or even amplify - historical structures of political inequality, rather than establishing a liberal form of statehood.

About the Author: Alex Veit is a research and teaching assistant at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence at the University of Bielefeld, Germany.

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Title: Intervention as Indirect Rule | Civil War ...
Publisher: Campus Verlag
Publication Date: 2010
Binding: Taschenbuch
Condition: Neu