Intervention as Indirect Rule: Civil War and Statebuilding in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Micropolitics of Violence) - Tapa blanda

Libro 3 de 14: Mikropolitik der Gewalt

Veit, Alex

 
9783593393117: Intervention as Indirect Rule: Civil War and Statebuilding in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Micropolitics of Violence)

Sinopsis

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.

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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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