This edited book sets out and engages with some of the key policies, practices and paradigms of external intervention in the case of state support and reconstruction.

1. Introduction David Chandler Part 1: Policy Frameworks 2. Ownership in Theory and Practice: Transfer of Authority in UN Statebuilding Operations Simon Chesterman 3. Do the Root Causes of Civil War Matter? On Using Knowledge to Improve Peacebuilding Interventions Susan L. Woodward 4. The Myth of the Failed State and the War on Terror: A Challenge to the Conventional Wisdom Aidan Hehir Part 2: Practices of Statebuilding 5. Reconstruction: an Agenda Amitai Etzioni 6. State-Building and Force: The Proper Role of Foreign Militaries Kimberly Marten 7. Police Restructuring in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Problems of Security Sector Reform Thomas Muehlmann Part 3: Paradigms 8. Hybrid Polities and Indigenous Pluralities: Advanced Lessons in Statebuilding from Cambodia David Roberts 9. Debt, Development and Intervention in Africa: The Contours of a Sovereign Frontier Graham Harrison 10. The Tragedy of Liberal Diplomacy Beate Jahn