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By Karoun Demirjian
08 Dec 2009 |
World Politics Review
Since the end of the Cold War, the United States has repeatedly
struggled with the question of how much is too much when it comes to
foreign military operations. The debate routinely comes down to how
far-reaching a military mandate presidents can chase before crossing
into the political no man's land of "nation-building."
By David Chandler
08 Dec 2009 |
World Politics Review
The EU has been keen to promote itself as a policy leader in the field of good governance. But an examination of the EU's good governance approach to
state-building in Bosnia suggests that the technocratic and
administrative legitimization of external intervention is not beyond
criticism, in both normative and practical policy terms.
By Damien Kingsbury
08 Dec 2009 |
World Politics Review
A little more than 10 years after the people of what is now Timor-Leste
voted for independence, this small, half-island country has compressed
into a few short years what many other post-colonial states have taken
decades to achieve.