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Welcome to the review library of the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding

HOW TO USE THIS SITE

1) The library is organised under various themes (e.g., 'Conflict Resolution, 'Peacekeeping', 'Africa', etc.) To see the books that are available for review, please click on the 'tags' listed above. This will bring up a list of books that are available under that particular theme. Please note that some books are classified under multiple tag headings (e.g., 'Intervention', 'War', 'Human Rights', etc.)

2) To see a list of recently added books, please click on the 'Recently-added books' on the bottom right-hand side of the page.

3) If you are interested in doing a review for the Journal, please contact the Reviews Editor Philip Cunliffe (philip.cunliffe@kcl.ac.uk). In your email, please briefly introduce yourself, your interests and which books you would like to review. The Reviews Editor will then send you the review copies you requested and the review guidelines.

4) If there are books that you would like to review for the Journal that are not listed here, please contact the Reviews Editor Philip Cunliffe (philip.cunliffe@kcl.ac.uk)

AIMS AND SCOPE OF THE JOURNAL OF INTERVENTION AND STATEBUILDING

The Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding is a new cross-disciplinary journal devoted to academic and practitioner analysis of international intervention with the purpose of strengthening state capacities. It is published by Routledge.

Statebuilding - constructing or reconstructing institutions of governance capable of providing citizens with physical and economic security - is widely held to be one of the most pressing policy questions facing the international community today. Those concerned with such issues cross the political spectrum. They include political realists who argue that there is more to fear from failing states than from conquering ones. They also embrace activists who see the dysfunction of state institutions as lying at the heart of the global poverty trap. Indeed, it is the intersection of these concerns on the part of the security and development communities that has made statebuilding a core policy focus across the policy agendas of major Western states, international institutions and international NGOs.

From post-conflict governance, in places like Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq, to international support for weak states, under the state capacity-building programmes of the US government's Millennium Challenge Account, the World Bank and International Monetary Fund's poverty reduction strategies, or the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, to the European Union enlargement strategies of 'member-state building' in the Balkans, the policies and programmes of statebuilding are proving central to the future of global politics.

The Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding brings together academics and practitioners to analyse the impact of the internationalisation of domestic governance mechanisms, to assess the development and the consequences of these policies, both intended and unintended, in an international and cross-disciplinary framework. In addition to analysing the impact of the blurring of the sovereign division between the domestic and the international, and the broader development of international statebuilding mechanisms, the entire range of statebuilding practices will be considered, including: international administrative powers; country ownership of poverty reduction strategies; the export of the EU acquis communautaire; civil society building; democracy promotion; anti-corruption policies; election monitoring; educational reform; psycho-social counselling; rule of law support; judicial and police reform; civil service and administrative reform; post-conflict peace-building; financial and economic reforms.

For further information about the Journal please visit the publisher's website here:
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~c...

posted by ISBjournal at 4:45 am (EST) on Feb 10, 2008