The Regional Dimension of Statebuilding Interventions

Benjamin Brast

No xur97, SocArXiv from Center for Open Science

Abstract: In the post-cold war era, liberal statebuilding interventions have become a major tool of global governance. Yet, the variation in outcomes is still poorly understood. This article draws on state formation theory to elaborate a causal mechanism that can explain the successful monopolization of the means of violence in statebuilding interventions. Insights from the state formation literature suggest that the regional political system is crucial for state formation and statebuilding. In order to test the hypothesis, a novel process-tracing method is applied to the case of Sierra Leone. The case study suggests that only a cooperative regional setting enables interventions to succeed.

Date: 2017-10-24
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DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/xur97

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