*State Failure and State Reconstruction (Post-Conflict Statebuilding)*

Dozent: Richard Caplan

Time: Thurday, 15.04.10 18-20Uhr Room D 433 (first meeting)
Tuesday, 22.06.10-16.07.10 14-16h, Room D 430
Wednesday, 23.06.10-16.07.10 18-20h, Room D 433
Thursday, 24.06.10-16.07.10 14-16h, Room R511

The seminar will examine the theoretical foundations and practices of post-conflict state building, with an emphasis on the experiences of the post-Cold War period. Among the topics to be addressed will be the changing strategic context of the 1990s; the debates surrounding international intervention in support of post-conflict state building; strategies for assisting and rebuilding failed states; humanitarian, development and security approaches to state reconstruction; the roles of major states and international and regional organisations; and the normative issues arising with respect to post-conflict state building.

Literatur

Call & Wyeth, Building States to Build Peace (2009);

Caplan, International Governance of War-Torn Territories (2005)

Paris, At War’s End (2004)

Leistungsnachweis:

2 x 2500 word essays; class presentations