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post-conflict reconstruction
(Michaelmas Term 2021/22)
459 items
Week 1: Introduction - Globalisation and Totalitarianism (30 items)
Essay questions: Can totalitarianism survive in a global era? The difference between
authoritarian and totalitarian regimes is exaggerated. Do you agree? How does the legacy
of post-totalitarianism impact on transition to democracy?
Essential Reading (4 items)

The origins of totalitarianism - Arendt, Hannah, 1966
Chapter | Essential | Especially chapter 12
SCANNED READING
The political forms of modern society: bureaucracy, democracy, totalitarianism - Claude

Lefort, 1986
SCANNED READING
Problems of democratic transition and consolidation: southern Europe, South America, and
post-communist Europe - Linz, Juan J., Stepan, Alfred C., 1996
Chapter | Essential | Especially "Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation:
Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe". pp. 38-54.
The Totalitarianism of Jihadist Islamism and its Challenge to Europe and to Islam - Bassam
Tibi, 2007-03
Article | Essential
Further Reading (25 items)

ISIS Propaganda: A Full-Spectrum Extremist Message
Book | Background
Prospects for democracy: north, south, east, west - David Held, 1993
Book | Background | Especially chapter 1, From City-States to a Cosmopolitan Order by
D. Held (pp. 13-52)
Runaway world: how globalisation is reshaping our lives - Giddens, Anthony, 2002
Book | Background
Global transformations: politics, economics and culture - Held, David, 1999

Book | Background
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Nations and nationalism in a global era - Smith, Anthony D., 1995

Book | Background | Especially chapter 6, In the Defence of the Nation (pp.147-160)
The rise of the network society - Castells, Manuel, 2000

Book | Background
Imagining the Balkans - Todorova, Mariëiìa Nikolaeva, 2009

Book | Background
Global civil society: an answer to war - Kaldor, Mary, 2003

Book | Background | Especially chapter 3: ‘The Ideas of 1989: The Origins of the
Concept of Global Civil Society’
Beyond totalitarianism: Stalinism and Nazism compared - Geyer, Michael, Fitzpatrick,

Sheila, 2009
Book | Background
What is globalization? - Ulrich Beck, 2000

Book | Background
Beck, U. (2003) ‘The Analysis of Global Inequality: From National to Cosmopolitan

Perspective’, in M. Kaldor, H. Anheier and M. Glasius (eds) Global Civil Society Yearbook.
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Document | Background | Beck, U. (2003) ‘The Analysis of Global Inequality: From
National to Cosmopolitan Perspective’, in M. Kaldor, H. Anheier and M. Glasius (eds) Global
Civil Society Yearbook. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Iron Curtain: the crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56 - Applebaum, Anne, 2012
Book | Background
Nothing to envy: ordinary lives in North Korea - Demick, Barbara, 2009

Book | Background
Totalitarian and Post-Totalitarian Regimes in Transitions and Non-Transitions from

Communism - M.R. Thompson, 2002
Article | Background
A normal totalitarian society: how the Soviet Union functioned and how it collapsed -
Shlapentokh, Vladimir, c2001
Book | Background
The Totalitarian State - Waldemar Gurian, 1978

The Post-Totalitarian Blues - Deborah M. Brissman, Jacques Rupnik, 1995

To Shoot or Not to Shoot: Posttotalitarianism in China and Eastern Europe - Mark R.

Thompson, 2001
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Tyrants and Terrorists: Reflections on the Connection between Totalitarianism,

Neo-liberalism, Civil War and the Failure of the State in Iraq and Sudan - Thomas
Schmidinger, 2009-09
Libya, Social Origins of Dictatorship, and the Challenge for Democracy - Ali Abdullatif
Ahmida, 2012-01
Black mass: apocalyptic religion and the death of utopia - Gray, John, 2007
Book | Background | Especially chapter 2
Totalitarianism and Rationality - Zbigniew Brzezinski, 1956

The Totalitarianism of Jihadist Islamism and its Challenge to Europe and to Islam - Tibi
Bassam, 2007
Islamism and Totalitarianism: Similarities and Differences - Michael Whine, 2001-09

Politicized Justice: Africa and the International Criminal Court - Maxine Rubin, 2020-07-01
Week 2: A Critique of Democratic Transition Theory (49 items)

Essay questions: Globalisation is conducive to democratisation. Discuss. Schmitter claims
that democratisation has proved to be less consequential than anticipated. What does he
mean? The legacy of conflict has greater impact on post-conflict democratization than the
legacy of the previous regime. Do you agree?

Twenty-Five Years, Fifteen Findings - Philippe C. Schmitter, 2009
Article | Essential
What the democratization literature says-or doesn't say-about postwar democratization -

Bermeo, Nancy, Apr-Jun 2003
Article | Essential
Democratization after Civil War: A Brush-Clearing Exercise - Virginia Page Fortna, Reyko
Huang, 2012-12
Article | Essential
The Pipe Dream of Undemocratic Liberalism - Sheri Berman

Article | Essential
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The light that failed: a reckoning - Ivan Krastev, Stephen Holmes, 2019
Book | Background
Democratization Studies: Citizenship, Globalization and Governance - Jean Grugel, 2003-04

The Tragedy of Liberal Diplomacy: Democratization, Intervention, Statebuilding (Part I) -

Beate Jahn, 2007-03
Article | Background | Part I
The Tragedy of Liberal Diplomacy: Democratization, Intervention, Statebuilding (Part II) -

Beate Jahn, 2007-06
Article | Background | Part II
Democracy from the Outside-In? International Organizations and Democratization -

2002-01-08
Article | Background | International Organisation Vol 56, Issue 3
Transitions to democracy: a comparative perspective - Stoner, Kathryn, McFaul, Michael,

2013
Book | Background
The Promise of the Arab Spring: In Political Development, No Gain Without Pain - Berman,
Sheri, Jan/Feb 2013
Democratic Triumph, Scholarly Pessimism - Bruce Gilley, 2009

Comparative Democratization: Big and Bounded Generalizations - V. Bunce, 2000-09-01

What has Eastern Europe taught us about the democratisation literature (and vice versa)?
- Petr Kopecý, Cas Mudde, 2000
Global civil society 2007/8 - Albrow, Martin, London School of Economics and Political
Science, University of California, Los Angeles, 2008
Book | Background | Especially 'Global Civil Society and Illiberal Regimes', pp. 86-111
Europeanizing the Balkans: Rethinking the Post-communist and Post-conflict Transition -

Denisa Kostovicova, Vesna Bojicˇic´-Dželilovic´, 2006-09
Persistent state weakness in the global age - Kostovicova, Denisa, Bojicic-Dzelilovic, Vesna
, c2009
Book | Background
The End of the Transition Paradigm - Thomas Carothers, 2002
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The global resurgence of democracy - Plattner, Marc F., Diamond, Larry Jay, c1996
Book | Background | Especially ‘Democracy’s Third Wave’, pp. 3-25
Capitalism by Democratic Design? Democratic Theory Facing the Triple Transition in East
Central Europe - Offe, Claus, Winter 1991
The Balkans: Democracy Without Choices - Ivan Krastev, 2002

How Different are Postcommunist Transitions? - Ghia Nodia, 1996

International Linkage and Democratization - Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way, 2005

Domestic and Transnational Perspectives on Democratization - Hans Peter Schmitz,

2004-09
Democratization and Democratic Consolidation in Post-communist Politics - Ishiyama, John

T, Sep 2003
The structural context of recent transitions to democracy - RENSKE DOORENSPLEET,

2004-05
Post-civil war democratization: promotion of democracy in post-civil war states, 1946–2005

- Madhav Joshi, 2010-10
Explaining (and re-explaining) political change in the Middle East during the Arab Spring:
trajectories of democratization and of authoritarianism in the Maghreb - Frédéric Volpi,
2013-10
The End of the Libyan Dictatorship: The Uncertain Transition - Yahia H Zoubir, Erzsébet N
Rózsa, 2012-08
Iraq: A Vote Against Sectarianism - Adeed Dawisha, 2010

Post-Qadhafi Libya: interactive dynamics and the political future - Youssef Mohammad
Sawani, 2012-03
The Lessons of 1989 - Lucan Way, 2011
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Building Democracy While Building Peace

Civil Society and the Legacies of Dictatorship - Michael Bernhard, Ekrem Karakoç, 2007-7
A Boon or a Bane? The Role of Civil Society in Third- and Fourth-Wave Democracies - R. F.
Tusalem, 2007-06-01
The Iraq We Left Behind: Welcome to the World's Next Failed State - Parker, Ned, Mar/Apr
2012
Is Iraq on Track?: Democracy and Disorder in Baghdad - Blinken, Antony, Jul/Aug 2012
The consolidation of democracy in East-Central Europe - Dawisha, Karen, Parrott, Bruce,

1997
Book | Background | Especially ‘Perspectives on postcommunist democratisation’, pp.
1-39
Democratic consolidation in Eastern Europe - Zielonka, Jan, 2001-

Book | Background | Especially ‘Introduction’, pp. 1-27
The International dimensions of democratization: Europe and the Americas - Whitehead,

Laurence, 2001
Book | Background
Inequality, Democratization, and De-Democratization - Charles Tilly, 2003

Democracy from the Outside-In? International Organizations and Democratization - Jon C.

Pevehouse, 2002
Democratic consolidation in Eastern Europe - Zielonka, Jan, 2001-

Book | Background
Democratization, State-building and War: The Cases of Serbia and Croatia - Nenad
Zakošek, 2008-06
Embracing democracy in the western Balkans: from postconflict struggles toward

European integration - Cohen, Lenard J., Lampe, John R., c2011
Book | Background
Forced to Be Free?: Why Foreign-Imposed Regime Change Rarely Leads to

Democratization
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Internal and external factors in the democratization of Azerbaijan - Aytan Gahramanova,

2009-08
Globalization, democratization, and the Arab uprising: the international factor in MENA's
failed democratization - Raymond Hinnebusch, 2015-02-23
Week 3: New Wars Debate (48 items)
Essay questions: Evaluate main contentions in the 'new wars' debate. Are there any new
characteristics of wars that need to be accounted for? War fought in the global context
cannot be anything but new. Discuss.

New and old wars: organized violence in a global era - Kaldor, Mary, 2007
SCANNED READING
The changing character of war - Strachan, Hew, Scheipers, Sibylle, Oxford Leverhulme
Programme on the Changing Character of War, 2011
Chapter | Essential | Especially The 'New Wars' Thesis Revisited
SCANNED READING
Scholarship on civil war: topics, debates and controversies

Chapter | Essential | Chapter: Scholarship on civil war: topics, debates and controversies

Paramilitarism in the Balkans: the cases of Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Albania 1917 - 1924 -
Dmitar
Tasic
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, 2020
Book | Background
Paramilitarism: mass violence in the shadow of the state -

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Book | Background
The Disintegration of Yugoslavia: A Critical Review of Explanatory Approaches - D. Jovic,

2001-02-01
The post-Soviet wars: rebellion, ethnic conflict, and nationhood in the Caucasus - Christoph
Zu
̈
rcher, 2009
Chapter | Background | Especially Introduction: War and Peace in the Caucasus
(pp.1-11)
Shifting Dynamics of the Insurgency and Counter-insurgency in the North Caucasus -

Roland Dannreuther, 2014-08-08
Review article: In search of new wars: The debate about a transformation of war - P. A.
Mello, 2010-06-01
How New Are New Wars - Global Economic Change and the Study of Civil War - Berdal,
Mats, 2003
Deconstructing civil wars: Beyond the new wars debate - J. Mundy, 2011-06-01
The changing character of war - Strachan, Hew, Scheipers, Sibylle, Oxford Leverhulme
Programme on the Changing Character of War, 2011
Book | Background
The sociology of war and violence - Maleéseviâc, Siniésa, 2010

Book | Background
Anything new or more of the same? Wars and military interventions in the international
system, 1946–2003 - Sven Chojnacki, 2006-01
The ‘New Wars’ Debate: A Historical Perspective is Needed - Edward Newman, 2004-06-01
'New Wars' and Rumours of 'New Wars' - Errol Henderson, David Singer, 2002
War from the ground up: twenty-first century combat as politics - Simpson, Emile, 2012
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Book | Background
“New” and “Old” Civil Wars: A Valid Distinction? - Stathis N. Kalyvas, 2001-10
The new Caucasus: Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia - Herzig, Edmund, 1999
Book | Background
Mary Kaldor: Yugoslavia and the New Nationalism - Mary Kaldor, 1993
The death of Yugoslavia - Silber, Laura, Little, Allan, 1996

Book | Background
Thinking about Yugoslavia: scholarly debates about the Yugoslav breakup and the wars in
Bosnia and Kosovo - Ramet, Sabrina P., 2005
Book | Background | Especially 'Chapter 1: Debates About the War’, pp. 1-34
War and change in the Balkans: nationalism, conflict and cooperation - Blitz, Brad K., 2006
Book | Background
The ghost of freedom: a history of the Caucasus - King, Charles, 2008

Book | Background
New states, new politics: building the post-Soviet nations - Bremmer, Ian, Taras, Ray, 1996
Book | Background | Especially ‘The North Caucasus: Confederation in Conflict’
Yugoslavia and after: a study in fragmentation, despair and rebirth - Dyker, David A.,
Vejvoda, Ivan, 1997
Book | Background
Balkan ghosts: a journey through history - Kaplan, Robert D., 2005

Book | Background
National deconstruction: violence, identity, and justice in Bosnia - Campbell, David, 1998
Book | Background
MetaBosnia: narratives of the Bosnian War - CAMPBELL, DAVID, 2000/09/08

Bosnia-Herzegovina: the end of a legacy - Andjelic, Neven, 2003

Book | Background
The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict Revisited: Was the War Inevitable? - 2001-01-05

Black garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan through peace and war - De Waal, Thomas, 2003
Book | Background
The Politics of Identity in Post-Soviet Abkhazia: Managing Diversity and Unresolved

Conflict1 - Rachel Clogg, 2008-05
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Cultural security dilemmas and ethnic conflict in Georgia - Cotter, John M, 1999
Small nations and great powers: a study of ethnopolitical conflict in the Caucasus - Cornell,
Svante E., 2001
Book | Background
Understanding order and violence in the post-Soviet space: the Chechen and
Russo-Georgia wars - Matt Killingsworth, 2012-06
The August 2008 war: main consequences for Georgia and its conflicts - Ghia Nodia,
2012-09
The 2008 Russian-Georgian war via the lens of Offensive Realism - Emmanuel Karagiannis,
2013
Displacing Blame: Georgian Internally Displaced Person Perspectives of the

Georgia–Abkhazia Conflict - Peter Kabachnik, Joanna Regulska, Beth Mitchneck, 2012-06
Russia resurgent? Moscow's campaign to ‘coerce Georgia to peace’ - ROY ALLISON,

2008-11
Filling the Void: Ethnic Politics and Nationalities Policy in Post-Conflict Georgia - Laurence
Broers, 2008-05
Libya’s Revolution - A Brahimi

Libya Since 1969: Qadhafi's Revolution Revisited - Dirk Vandewalle, 2008

Book | Background
Try Again, Fail Again, Fail Better? War, the State and the Post-conflict challenge if
Afghanistan - Cramer, C., Goodhand J.
Article | Background | 885-909
Globalizing Afghanistan: Terrorism, War, and the Rhetoric of Nation-Building - Zubeda

Jalalzai, David Jefferess, 2011
Book | Background
Identity Politics in Iraq: How much of it is about identity? - F Haddad

The Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s - Catherine Baker, 2015
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Book | Background
Week 4: Oil and Conflict (40 items)

Essay questions: Oil causes war. Discuss. To what extent were Iraq and Libya 'new wars'?
How does oil affect post-conflict reconstruction?

Oil wars - Kaldor, Mary, Said, Yahia, Karl, Terry Lynn, 2007
Book | Essential | Especially: ‘Introduction', pp.1-40.
The oil curse: how petroleum wealth shapes the development of nations - Michael Ross,
2013
Book | Essential | Especially chapter 5: ‘Oil-based Violence’, pp. 145-187
Oil and resource-backed aggression - Jeff Colgan, 2011-3

Article | Essential

Geopolitics of resource wars: resource dependence, governance and violence - Philippe Le
Billon, c2005
Book | Background | Especially Chapter 1 ( page 1-29)
Criminals, Militias, and Insurgents: organized Crime in Iraq - Williams, Phil, 1948-,
Lovelace, Douglas.C, Army War College (U.S.), 2009
Book | Background | Especially chapter 2 - 'The Rise of Organized Crime in Iraq,'
pp.23-61
SCANNED READING
Who said Gaddafi had to go? - Hugh Roberts, 2011

Article | Background | SCANNED READING
Demystifying the Arab Spring: Parsing the Differences Between Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya -
Anderson, Lisa, May/Jun 2011
Basra Crude: The Great Game of Iraq’s “Southern Oil” - Reidar Visser, 2007
Document | Background | NUPI Working Paper 723
Iraq's provincial elections: the Stakes - International Crisis Group, 2009

Document | Background | Middle East Report No.82
Regime Change in Iraq - M. Kaldor, Y. Said, 2003

Document | Background | CsGG Discussion Paper 26
The US and Iraq: Time to Go Home - Toby Dodge, 2010-05
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Iraq's Upstream Oil and Gas Industry: A Post-Election Analysis - Thomas W. Donovan,
2010-06-09
The geopolitics of resource wars: resource dependence, governance and violence - Le

Billon, Philippe, 2005
Book | Background | Especially ‘The Geopolitical Economy of ‘Resource Wars’ pp. 1-28
Oil - Bridge, Gavin, Le Billon, Philippe, 2013

Book | Background
Petro-aggression: when oil causes war - Colgan, Jeff, 2013

Book | Background
Progress or Peril?: Measuring Iraq’s Reconstruction - CSIS, 2004

Document | Background
The Anbar awakening: An alliance of incentives - McCary, John A, 2009

Historical Myths of a Divided Iraq - Reidar Visser, 2008-05

The Price of the Surge - Stephen Simon, 2008

Lessons of Operation Iraqi Freedom - Foreign and Defense Policy - AEI

Webpage | Background
A history of Iraq - Tripp, Charles, 2007

Book | Background
Iraq in fragments: the occupation and its legacy - Herring, Eric, Rangwala, Glen, 2006
Book | Background
Identity and foreign policy in the Middle East - Telhami, Shibley, Barnett, Michael N., 2002
Book | Background
Saving Iraq From Its Oil - Nancy Birdsall ; Arvind Subramanian, 2004
The Kurdish policy imperative - Lowe, Robert, Stansfield, Gareth R. V., Royal Institute of
International Affairs, c2010
Book | Background
Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Iraq - Steven Metz, 2003

Iraq: A Decade of Lost Opportunities - Mina al-Oraibi, 2013-04
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From dictatorship to democracy: an insider's account of the Iraqi opposition to Saddam -

Bayåatåi, òHåamid, c2011
Book | Background
Idenity Politics in Iraq: How Much of it is about Identity? - Fanar Haddad, 2012
Winners Take All: The Politics of Partial Reform in Postcommunist Transitions - 1998-01-02
Criminalizing Consequences of Sanctions: Embargo Busting and Its Legacy - Peter Andreas,
2005-06
Oil rents, corruption, and state stability: Evidence from panel data regressions - Rabah
Arezki, Markus Brückner, 2011-10
Basra Crude: The Great Game of Iraq’s “Southern Oil” - Reidar Visser, 2007
Democracy and Ethno-religious Conflict in Iraq - Andreas Wimmer, 2003-12

Historical Myths of a Divided Iraq - Reidar Visser, 2008-05

Libya's Revolution - Alia Brahimi, 2011-12

Libya since independence: oil and state-building - Dirk J. Vandewalle, c1998

Book | Background
Petroimperialism: US Oil Interests and the Iraq War’ - N. J. Jhaveri

Oil abundance and violent political conflict: A critical assessment - J. Di John

Week 5: Territoriality and Identity Politics (45 items)

Essay questions:
The global age is the age of identity politics. Do you agree?
The involvement of diasporas in conflicts in their homelands is a consequence of

globalisation. Discuss
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Explain the persistence of conflict over territory in the era of globalisation.

Transnational dynamics of civil war - 2013
Book | Essential | esp. Chapter 3 by Fiona B. Adamson, ‘Mechanisms of diaspora
mobilization and the transnationalization of civil war'
Territoriality and conflict in an era of globalization - Miles Kahler

Chapter | Essential | Chapter 1 - Territoriality and conflict in an era of globalization
Chapter 5: Help from Abroad

Chapter | Essential

Digital nationalism: Understanding the role of digital media in the rise of ‘new’ nationalism
- Sabina Mihelj, César Jiménez‐Martínez, 2021-04
The Future of the Past: Reflections on the Present State and Prospects of Transitional
Justice - Pablo de Greiff, 2020-07-01
Diasporas in the contemporary world - Milton J. Esman, 2009

Book | Essential | Chapter 6 ‘Diasporas and ethnic conflict’, pp. 133-149
Global civil society 2003 - Kaldor, Mary, Anheier, Helmut K., Glasius, Marlies, Centre for
Civil Society (London School of Economics and Political Science), 2003
Chapter | Essential | Especially "Religious and Nationalist Militant Networks"
The spectre of comparisons: nationalism, Southeast Asia, and the world - Anderson,
Benedict R. O'G., 1998
Chapter | Background | Especially chapter 3 pp. 58-74
SCANNED READING
The global commonwealth of citizens: toward cosmopolitan democracy - Daniele Archibugi,

c2008
Book | Background | Especially Chapter 1: A Queen for the World? (pp 1-15)
The Balkans beyond nationalism and identity: international relations and ideology - Pavlos
Hatzopoulos, 2008
Book | Background | Especially Chapter 6: Reconceptualising the Balkans: the Realm of
Ideology (pp 153-178)
Human rights and empire: the political philosophy of cosmopolitanism - Costas Douzinas,
2007
Book | Background | Especially Chapter 8 Human Rights: Values in a Valuless World (pp
177-197)
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Understanding nationalism - Guibernau i Berdâun, M. Montserrat, Hutchinson, John, 2001

Book | Background | Especially ‘Homelands in a world of states’
Global diasporas: an introduction - Cohen, Robin, 2008

Book | Background | Especially chapters 7 and 8
The political lives of dead bodies: reburial and postsocialist change - Verdery, Katherine,
c1999
Book | Background
The New World Disorder - Benedict Anderson, 1992

Al-Qaeda: chasing the shadow of terror - Burke, Jason, 2003

Book | Background
Fundamentalism - Bruce, Steve, 2000

Book | Background
Nations and nationalism in a global era - Smith, Anthony D., 1995

Book | Background
Territoriality and conflict in an era of globalization - Kahler, Miles, Walter, Barbara F., 2006
Book | Background | Especially ‘Territoriality and Conflict in an Era of Globalization”
Migration, diasporas, and transnationalism - Vertovec, Steven, Cohen, Robin, c1999

Book | Background
Transnational dynamics of civil war - 2013

Book | Background | esp. Chapter 3 by Fiona B. Adamson, ‘Mechanisms of diaspora
mobilization and the transnationalization of civil war’
Ethnic groups and distance shrinking communication technologies - Michael Dahan,

Gabriel Sheffer, 2001-03
Ethno-National Diasporas and SecuritySurvival - Gabriel Sheffer, 1994

The geography of identity - Yaeger, Patricia, 1996

Book | Background | Especially ‘Sovereignty without territoriality: Notes for a
postnational geography’, pp. 41-58
Dismembering Yugoslavia: Nationalist Ideologies and the Symbolic Revival of Genocide -

Bette Denich, 1994
Diaspora & hybridity - Kalra, Virinder S., Kaur, Raminder, Hutnyk, John, 2005
Book | Background
Governance in post-conflict societies: rebuilding fragile states - Brinkerhoff, Derick W.,
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| Background | Especially ‘Contributions of digital diasporas to governance
Book
reconstruction in fragile states: potential and promise’
Between ambivalence and intrusion: politics and identity in Armenia - Diaspora relations -
Razmik Panossian, 1998-10
Diasporic transnational financial flows and their impact on national identity - Yossi Shain,
Martin Sherman, 2001-12
Cities, war, and terrorism: towards an urban geopolitics - Graham, Stephen, 2004
Book | Background | Especially "Urbicide in Bosnia", pp.154-171
Cities, war, and terrorism: towards an urban geopolitics - Graham, Stephen, 2004
Book | Background | Especially 'New wars of the city: 'urbicide' and 'genocide'
Circassian Encounters: The Self as Other and the Production of the Homeland in the North
Caucasus. - S. Shami, 1998
Diasporas in conflict: peace-makers or peace-wreckers? - Smith, Hazel, Stares, Paul B.,

c2007
Book | Background | Especially The Armenian diaspora and the Karabagh conflict since
1988
Is There an Albanian Question? - Judy Batt, 2008

Document | Background | Please read 'Albanian diasporas and their political roles'
Diasporas and secessionist conflicts: the mobilization of the Armenian, Albanian and
Chechen diasporas - Maria Koinova, 2011-02
Grassroots mobilization and Diaspora politics: Armenian interest groups and the role of
collective memory - Rachel Anderson Paul, 2000-03
Urbicide: the politics of urban destruction - Martin Coward, c2009

Book | Background
Armistice and Governance in the Iraqi Government-Formation Process: The US Position

Global Jihadism After the Iraq War - Hegghammer, Thomas, 2006

The Iraq Effect in Saudi Arabia | Middle East Research and Information Project
Iraq’s Civil War, the Sadrists and the Surge - International Crisis Group
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Modern hatreds: the symbolic politics of ethnic war - Kaufman, Stuart J., c2001
Book | Background
The Bosnian diaspora: integration in transnational communities - Valenta, Marko, Ramet,

Sabrina P., c2011
Book | Background
When the Whole Is Greater than the Sum of Its Parts: On the Conceptualization and
Measurement of Populist Attitudes and Other Multidimensional Constructs - ALEXANDER
WUTTKE, CHRISTIAN SCHIMPF, HARALD SCHOEN, 2020-05
Week 6: Reading Week
Week 7: Civil Society and Peace-Building (40 items)
Essay questions: Civil society is the opposite to war. Discuss. Can civil society be built
from outside? Why cannot civil society's constructive contribution to post-conflict
peace-building be assumed?

Civil society and transitions in the Western Balkans - Bojicic-Dzelilovic, Vesna, Ker-Lindsay,
James, Kostovicova, Denisa, 2013
Book | Essential | Especially ‘Introduction: Civil Society and Multiple Transitions – Actors,
Meanings and Effects’
SCANNED READING
Civil society & peacebuilding: a critical assessment - Thania Paffenholz, 2010

Chapter | Essential | Thania Paffenholz (2010) ‘Civil Society and Peacebuilding’ pp.
43-64
Global civil society 2006/7 - Helmut K. Anheier, Mary Kaldor, Marlies Glasius, 2006
Book | Essential | Mary Kaldor, Denisa Kostovicova and Yahia Said, ‘War and peace: The
role of global civil society’ pp. 94-121

From War to Democracy: Dilemmas of Peacebuilding - Anna K. Jarstad, Timothy D. Sisk,
2008
Book | Background | ‘Peacebuilding as democratization: findings and recommendations’
- Timothy D. Sisk
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A place for us: how to make society civil and democracy strong - Benjamin R. Barber, 1998
Book | Background
Civil Society and Democratically Accountable Global Governance - Jan Aart Scholte,
2004-04
Article | Background | Government and Opposition Vol 39, Issue 2
Civilizing Peacebuilding: Transitional Justice, Civil Society and the Liberal Paradigm - K.
Andrieu, 2010-10-01
Article | Background | Security Dialogue Vol 41, Issue 5
Civil Society and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding: Ambiguities of International

Programmes Aimed at Building 'New' Societies - B. Pouligny, 2005-12-01
Article | Background | Security Dialogue. Vol 36, Issue 4.
Reading the Small Print in Global Civil Society: The Inexorable Hegemony of the Liberal
Self - S. Hopgood, 2000-01-01
Article | Background | Millennium - Journal of International Studies. Vol. 29, Issue 1.
Transnationalization of Civil Society in Kosovo: International and Local Limits of Peace and
Multiculturalism - Ana Devic, 2006-09
Article | Background | Ethnopolitics Vol 5 Issue 3
Global civil society: an answer to war - Kaldor, Mary, 2003

State and civil society: explorations in political theory - Chandhoke, Neera, c1995
Can democracy be designed?: the politics of institutional choice in conflict-torn societies -

Bastian, Sunil, Luckham, Robin, 2003
Activists beyond borders: advocacy networks in international politics - Keck, Margaret E.,
Sikkink, Kathryn, 1998
Book | Background
Cosmopolitanism, world citizenship and global civil society - Chris Brown, 2000-03
Civil society & development: a critical exploration - Howell, Jude, Pearce, Jenny, 2001
Book | Background
Contemporary conflict resolution: the prevention, management and transformation of

deadly conflicts - Ramsbotham, Oliver, Miall, Hugh, Woodhouse, Tom, 2011
Book | Background
Vigilance and vengeance: NGOs preventing ethnic conflict in divided societies - Rotberg,
Robert I., c1996
Book | Background
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Rebuilding societies after civil war: critical roles for international assistance - Krishna,
Kumar, 1997
Book | Background
Ethnic conflict and civic life: Hindus and Muslims in India - Varshney, Ashutosh, 2003
Book | Background
The Virtue of Civil Society - Edward Shils, 1991-01

Civil society: the critical history of an idea - Ehrenberg, John, c1999

Book | Background
Bottom-up politics: an agency-centred approach to globalization - Kostovicova, Denisa,

Glasius, Marlies, 2011
Book | Background | Especially ‘Civility in Global Civil Society: The Missing Link’ ,
pp.50-60.
Uncharted journey: promoting democracy in the Middle East - Carothers, Thomas,

Ottaway, Marina, c2005
Book | Background | Especially ‘Is Civil Society the Answer’
Building democracy in Iraq - Ghai, Yash P., Lattimer, Mark, Said, Yahia, 2003
Book | Background | Especially ‘Post-totalitarian transition in Iraq’, pp. 16-26.
The biggest problem we face is keeping our independence - Party Oppressions of Civil
Society in the 'new' Iraq - Juliet Kerr, 2009
How to Build a Democratic Iraq - Adeed I. Dawisha ; Karen Dawisha, 2003

"Identity" and political survival in Saddam's Iraq - Dawisha, Adeed, Autumn 1999
An Iraq of its regions: cornerstones of a federal democracy? - Visser, Reidar, Stansfield,

Gareth R. V., c2007
Book | Background
Beyond Gaddafi: Libyas Governance Context - Jim Armstrong, Sanjay Gurung, 2011
Document | Background | Especially The Governance Network/Mercy Corps
The People's Peace? Peace Agreements, Civil Society, and Participatory Democracy - C.
Bell, C. O'Rourke, 2007-06-01
Democracy Promotion, Civil Society Building, and the Primacy of Politics - M. A. Jamal,
2012-01-01
Republika Srpska and its Boundaries in Bosnian Serb Geographical Narratives in the
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Post‐Dayton Period - DENISA KOSTOVICOVA, 2004-12

Democratization in Bosnia: The limits of civil society building strategies - David Chandler,
1998-12
The Ethnocracy Trap - Lise Morjé Howard, 2012

Addressing Ethnic Divisions in Post-Conflict Institution-Building: Lessons from Recent

Cases - S. G. Simonsen, 2005-09-01
Partners in peace: discourses and practices of civil-society peacebuilding - Leeuwen,

Mathijs van, c2009
Book | Background
Civil Society and Democracy: The Gap between Theory and Possibility - G. Baker,
1998-05-01
Everyday Peace: How So-Called Ordinary People Can Disrupt Violent Conflict - Roger Mac
Ginty, 2021
Book | Background
Week 8: Transitional Justice (60 items)
Essay questions: Why is complementarity a new buzzword in the field of transitional

justice? 'Justice must not only be fair, but must also be seen to be fair.' Discuss. Is the
dilemma between peace and justice outdated?

Interrogating the Peripheries: The Preoccupations of Fourth Generation Transitional Justice
- Sharp, Dustin N
Article | Essential
Transitional justice in the twenty-first century: beyond truth versus justice - Roht-Arriaza,
Naomi, Mariezcurrena, Javier, 2006
Book | Essential | Especially ”The New Landscape of Transitional Justice”, pg. 1-16.
Truth-Seeking, Truth-Telling, and Postconflict Peacebuilding: Curb the Enthusiasm? - David

Mendeloff, 2004
Article | Essential
Transitional Injustice: Subverting Justice in Transition and Postconflict Societies - Cyanne E.

Loyle, Christian Davenport, 2016-01-02
Article | Essential
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The politics of memory: transitional justice in democratizing societies - Alexandra
Barahona de Brito, Carmen
Gonza
́
lez
Enri
́
quez, Paloma Aguilar
Ferna
́
ndez, 2001
Book | Background | Especially Introduction Chapter
Transitional Justice: A Colonizing Field? - Stephanie Vieille, 2012

Article | Background | Amsterdam Law Forum, Vol 4 Issue 3
Transitional Justice Genealogy - Teitel, Ruti G., 2003

Transitional justice - Teitel, Ruti G., 1999

Book | Background | Especially chapters 3, 4 and 5 (Historical Justice, Reparatory Justice
and Constitutional Justice).
Transitional justice: how emerging democracies reckon with former regimes - Kritz, Neil J.,
1995
Book | Background | Especially ‘Justice after transitions: on the choices successor elites
make in dealing with the past’ pp. 104-115
Transitional justice and the rule of law in new democracies - McAdams, A. James, Helen
Kellogg Institute for International Studies, c1997
Book | Background | Especially ‘In Defense of Transitional Justice’ pp. 1-26
Reconciliation(s): transitional justice in postconflict societies - Quinn, Joanna R.,

Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict Research Group, c2009
Book | Background
Transitional justice in balance: comparing processes, weighing efficacy - Olsen, Tricia D.,
Payne, Leigh A., Reiter, Andrew G., United States Institute of Peace, 2010
Book | Background
Localizing transitional justice: interventions and priorities after mass violence - Shaw,
Rosalind, Waldorf, Lars, Hazan, Pierre, c2010
Book | Background
Order and Justice in Iraq - Leslie Vinjamuri, 2003-12

Transitional Justice and Human Rights in Afghanistan - Barnett R. Rubin, 2003

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Saddam Hussein's Trial Meets the “Fairness” Test - Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu, 2006-12
Transitional justice in Iraq: the Iraqi special tribunal and the future of a nation - Smith,
Adam M, 2005
Exporting Justice: Perceptions of the ICTY Among the Serbian, Croatian, and Muslim
Communities in the Former Yugoslavia - Dan Saxon, 2005-10
Civil society and post-communist democratization: Facing a double challenge in

post-Milošević Serbia - Denisa Kostovicova, 2006-05
International Justice and Domestic Politics: Post-Tudjman Croatia and the International
Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia - Victor Peskin, Mieczyslaw P. Boduszyrski,
2003
Judgement day: the trial of Slobodan Miloéseviâc - Stephen, Chris, 2004

Book | Background | Especially chapters 7,9, 10 and Epilogue
Stasiland: Stories from behind the Berlin Wall - Funder, Anna, 2003
Book | Background
The key to my neighbour's house: seeking justice in Bosnia and Rwanda - Neuffer,
Elizabeth, 2003, c2000
Book | Background
Rebuilding an Inclusive Political Community After War - R. Mani, 2005-12-01

Justice Discourses in Transition - C. Bell, 2004-09-01

Truth commissions, trials--or nothing? Policy options in democratic transitions - Skaar, Elin,
1128
From Prague to Baghdad: Lustration Systems and their Political Effects1 - Roman David,
2006-06
Is a Truth Commission the Solution to Restoring Peace in Post-Conflict Iraq - Hendy, Daniel
J., 2005
Briefing Paper: Iraq's New "Accountability and Justice" Law - 2008-01-22

Document | Background | International Centre for Transitional Justice
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Bremer's "Gordian Knot": Transitional Justice and the US Occupation of Iraq - Eric Stover,
Hanny Megally, Hania Mufti, 2005
The European Union and Transitional Justice: From Retributive to Restorative Justice in the
Western Balkans - D. Kostovicova, 2009
Document | Background | Special bi-lingual issue of the Forum for Transitional Justice
My neighbor, my enemy: justice and community in the aftermath of mass atrocity - Stover,
Eric, Weinstein, Harvey M., 2004
Book | Background | Especially ‘A worlds unto itself? The application of international
justice in former Yugoslavia’ (Chapter 1)
Transitional justice and the rule of law in new democracies - McAdams, A. James, Helen
Kellogg Institute for International Studies, c1997
Book | Background
The politics of memory: transitional justice in democratizing societies - Aguilar Fernâandez,

Paloma, Brito, Alexandra Barahona de, Gonzâalez Enrâiquez, Carmen, 2001
Book | Background
Search for Post-Conflict Justice in Iraq: A Comparative Study of Transitional Justice

Mechanisms and Their Applicability to Post-Saddam Iraq, The - Hollywood, Dana Michael,
2007-2008
The foundations of constitutionalism: an analysis of debaathification - Jens Meierhenrich,

2008-12
Paranoids may be persecuted: post-totalitarian retroactive justice - Aviezer Tucker, 1999-5

Expanding the scope of post-conflict justice: Individual, state and societal responsibility for
mass atrocity - J. Subotic, 2011-03-01
Transitional Justice as Global Project: critical reflections - Rosemary Nagy, 2008-02

From Prague to Baghdad: Lustration Systems and their Political Effects1 - Roman David,
2006-06
Hijacked justice: dealing with the past in the Balkans - Subotic, Jelena, 2009
Book | Background
After Qaddafi: The Surprising Success of the New Libya - Vandewalle, Dirk, Nov/Dec 2012
Georgian Parliament Begins Inquiry into the War - Olga Allenova, Georgy Dvali, 2008
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War Crimes In The 2008 Georgia-Russia Conflict - C. W. Mullins, 2011-11-01

Transitional Justice and Georgia’s Conflicts: Breaking the Silence - Magdalena Frichova,
2009
Document | Background | International Centre for Transitional Justice
Issues of justice and reconciliation in complex political emergencies: Conceptualising

reconciliation, justice and peace - Pankhurst, Donna, Feb 1999
Transitional justice in the world, 1970-2007: Insights from a new dataset - T. D. Olsen, L. A.
Payne, A. G. Reiter, 2010-11-01
Achieving Reconciliation in Divided Societies - Sarkin, Jeremy, 2008

The Role Of International Criminal Prosecution - Carla Del Ponte, 2003

Document | Background | Discussion Paper 24
Iraqi Refugees: Seeking Stability in Syria and Jordan - Patricia Weiss Fagen, 2007
Document | Background | Georgetown School of Foreign Service in Qatar: Center for
International and Regional Studies Occasional Paper No.1
A bitter Legacy: Lessons of Debaathification in Iraq - Miranda Sissons, Abdulrazzaq

Al-Saiedi, 2013
Document | Background | International Center for Transitional Justice
Prosecuting Saddam and Bungling Transitional Justice in Iraq - Tarin, Danielle, 2004-2005
Justice as Peace? Liberal Peacebuilding and Strategies of Transitional Justice - Chandra

Lekha Sriram, 2007-10
Guilt, responsibility, and denial: the past at stake in post-Miloéseviâc Serbia - Gordy, Eric
D., 2013
Book | Background
‘The European Future of the Western Balkans: Thessaloniki@10 (2003-2013) - Eviola Prifti,
2013
Document | Background | Especially Civil Society and Reconciliation in the Western
Balkans: Great Expectation?’ pp. 101-107
Transitional Justice as a Global Project: Critical Reflections - Rosemary Nagy

Justice as Peace? Liberal Peacebuilding and Strategies of Transitional Justice - Chandra
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Lekha Sriram
The Complexity of Reconciliation - Birju Kotecha

The ‘Art’ of Reconciliation - Rachel Kerr

Week 10: Economic Transition and Informal Economy (43 items)
Essay Questions: Expansion in informal economy is a temporary feature of economic

transition. Discuss. How is the presence of informal economy linked conflict? Why is
combating informal economy difficult in post-conflict, post-totalitarian transitions?

Dilemmas of transition: the Hungarian experience - Braun, Aurel, Barany, Zoltan D., c1999
Chapter | Essential | Especially 'Post- Communist Economic Transformation', pp69-88
Underground economies in transition: unrecorded activity, tax evasion, corruption and

organized crime - Ott, Katarina, Feige, Edgar L., c1999
Chapter | Essential | Especially 'Underground Economies in Transition' , pp 11-29
Economic Transformation outside the Law: Corruption, Trust in Public Institutions and the
Informal Economy in Transition Countries of Central and Eastern Europe - Claire Wallace
and Rossalina Latcheva, 2006
Article | Essential
What Are the Lessons from Post-Communist Transitions? - Dalibor Roháč, 2013-02
Article | Essential

Peacebuilding with “Chinese Characteristics”? Insights from China's Engagement in
Myanmar's Peace Process - Monalisa Adhikari, 2021-08-20
The role of informal economies in the post-Soviet world: the end of transition? - Williams,
Colin C., Round, John, Rodgers, Peter William, 2013
Book | Background | Especially Part I (Re)theorising transition economies pp9-75.
"Seize the state, seize the day": state capture, corruption, and influence in transition -
Hellman, Joel S., Jones, Geraint, Kaufmann, Daniel, World Bank, 2000
Book | Background
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Economic crime in Russia - Ledeneva, Alena V., Kurkchiyan, Marina, 2000

Book | Background | Especially "The Transformation of the Second Economy into the
Informal Economy", pp83-99 (Chapter 6)
Divergent paths in post-communist transformation: capitalism for all or capitalism for the
few? - Havrylyshyn, Oleh, 2006
Book | Background | Especially chapters 1, 2 & 3
Le programme du Comecon et l'intâegration socialiste - Lavigne, Marie, 1973

Book | Background | Especially chapters 6, 7 & 8
How Russia really works: the informal practices that shaped post-Soviet politics and
business - Ledeneva, Alena V., 2006
Book | Background | Especially pp10-28
Out of the shadows: political action and informal economy in Latin America -
Fernâandez-Kelly, Patricia, Shefner, Jon, c2006
Book | Background | Especially 'The Informal Economy in the Shadow of the State',
pp23-49
Organized Crime and Corruption in Iraq - Phil Williams, 2009-02

Shadow trade war economies and their challenge to peacebuilding - Monika Heupel,
2006-6
Europeanisation and conflict networks: private sector development in post-conflict

Bosnia–Herzegovina - Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic, Denisa Kostovicova, 2013-03
L'ouevre au noir: The Shadow Economy of Kosovo's Independence - Francesco Strazzari,

2008-04
Profiting from peace: managing the resource dimension of civil war - Ballentine, Karen,
Nitzschke, Heiko, 2005
Book | Background | Especially "Combating Organized Crime in Armed Conflict"
pp123-153
The political economy of armed conflict: beyond greed and grievance - Ballentine, Karen,
Sherman, Jake, International Peace Academy, 2003
Book | Background | Especially Introduction: pp1-19; Ch7: pp167-197; Conclusion:
pp259-285
Shadow globalization, ethnic conflicts and new wars: a political economy of intra-state war
- Jung, Dietrich, 2003
Book | Background | Especially chapters 1, 3 &7
War economies in a regional context: challenges of transformation - Pugh, Michael C.,

Cooper, Neil, Goodhand, Jonathan, 2004
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Book | Background | Especially chapters 1,6 & 7
Blue helmets and black markets: the business of survival in the siege of Sarajevo -
Andreas, Peter, 2008
Book | Background
Problems of post-communism - George Washington University, 2004

Journal | Background | Special Issue on "Transnational crime and conflict in the Balkans"
How to formalise the informal? The dynamics of the grey economy in the Western Balkans
region- the case of Kosovo - Lea Haas, 2011
Document | Background | Hertie School of Governance
Economic Consequences of Conflict: The Rise of Iraq's In formal Economy - Robert Looney,
2006
The Benefits of Ethnic War: Understanding Eurasia's Unrecognized States - Charles King,
2001-7
Potentials of disorder - Koehler, Jan, Zèurcher, Christoph, 2003

Book | Background | Especially Civil Wars in Georgia: Corruption Breeds Violence,
pp127-145
Statehood and security: Georgia after the Rose Revolution - Coppieters, Bruno, Legvold,
Robert, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, c2005
Book | Background
From war economies to peace economies in the South Caucasus | International Alert
McMafia: a journey through the global criminal underworld - Glenny, Misha, 2008
Chapter | Background | Especially chapter 2
SCANNED READING
Organized crime and corruption in Georgia - Shelley, Louise I., Scott, Erik, Latta, Anthony,
2007
Book | Background
Corruption, Reconstruction and Oil Governance in Iraq - Philippe Le Billon, 2005-06

Iraq and the Domestic Political Effects of Economic Sanctions - Nimah Mazaheri,
2010-04-15
Global Governance - 2012

Journal | Background | Special issue ‘Hybrid Peace Governance'
Conflict dynamics in post-2011 Libya: a political economy perspective - I. Constantini
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Political instability and the informal economy - Elbahnasawy N.G., Ellis M.A., Adom A.D.
The Economics of Coping: The Plight of Women in Iraq’s Informal Economy - Looney R.
Iraq and the Domestic Political Effects of Economic Sanctions - N. Mazaheri

Reforming and Performing the Informal Economy: Constitutive Effects of the World Bank’s
Anti-Informality Practices in Kosovo - Danielsson A.
Linking the Formal and Informal Economy: Concepts and Policies - Basudeb
Guha-Khasnobis, Ravi Kanbur, Elinor Ostrom, 2006
Book | Background
Corrupting or Consolidating the Peace? The Drugs Economy and Post conflict peace
building in Afghanistan - J. Goodhand
Combating Corruption in Afghanistan - K. Von Hippel, 30 September 2009

Jihad & Co: black markets and Islamist power - Aisha Ahmad, 2017
Book | Background
Week 9: Protectorates and International Administrations (47 items)
Essay Questions: International administrations are an appropriate response to weak

states in a globalised world. Discuss. Evaluate the arguments for and against external
state-building. How do we know that state-building has failed?

The organised hypocrisy of international state-building - Robert Egnell, 2010-09
Article | Essential
Evaluating the Legacies of State-Building: Success, Failure, and the Role of Responsibility -
Oisín Tansey, 2014-03
Article | Essential
The ideology of failed states: why intervention fails - Susan L. Woodward, 2017
Book | Essential | Chapter 2 “What’s in a Name?”, pp. 11-25 and Chapter 8 “Neither
Security Nor Development’, pp. 221-254.
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Guarding the guards: Pluralist accountability for human rights violations by international
organisations - Gisela Hirschmann, 2019-01
Article | Essential

Persistence of informal networks and liberal peace-building: evidence from Bosnia and
Herzegovina - Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic, Denisa Kostovicova, Ahmet K. Suerdem,
2021-06-05
The dilemmas of statebuilding: confronting the contradictions of postwar peace operations

- Paris, Roland, Sisk, Timothy D., 2009
Book | Background | Especially pp. 1-20
Persistent state weakness in the global age - Denisa Kostovicova, Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic,
c2009
Book | Background | Especially ‘Introduction: State Weakening and Globalization’ in
Denisa Kostovicova and Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic
State building and the non-state: debating key dilemmas - Sukanya Podder, 21-10-2014
Fixing failed states: a framework for rebuilding a fractured world - Ghani, Ashraf, Lockhart,
Clare, 2008
Book | Background | Especially chapter ‘Toward a multifunctional view of the state’.
International governance of war-torn territories: rule and reconstruction - Richard Caplan,

2005
Book | Background
Neotrusteeship and the Problem of Weak States - 2004-21-05

You, the people: the United Nations, transitional administration, and state-building -
Chesterman, Simon, c2004
Book | Background
Peace at any price: how the world failed Kosovo - King, Iain, Mason, Whit, 2006
Book | Background
Between anarchy and society: trusteeship and the obligations of power - Bain, William,
2003
Book | Background
The sovereignty paradox: the norms and politics of international statebuilding - Zaum,
Dominik, 2007
Book | Background
Problematic sovereignty: contested rules and political possibilities - Krasner, Stephen D.,
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2001
| Background | Especially ‘Compromised sovereignty to create sovereignty: Is
Book
Dayton a futile exercise or an emerging model’, pp 252-300
Global governance: a review of multilateralism and international organizations - Academic

Council of the United Nations System, United Nations University, 2004
Journal | Background | Special Issue on the Politics of International Administration, Mats
Berdal and Richard Kaplan, guest editors
Legitimacy and International Administration: The Ahtisaari Settlement for Kosovo from a
Human Security Perspective - Denisa Kostovicova, 2008-11
Current International Civil Administration: The Need for Political Legitimacy - Sally Morphet
, 2002-06
Guilt, responsibility, and denial: the past at stake in post-Miloéseviâc Serbia - Gordy, Eric
D., 2013
Book | Background
Empire lite: nation building in Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan - Ignatieff, Michael, 2003
Book | Background
Building states to build peace - Call, Charles, Wyeth, Vanessa, International Peace
Academy, 2008
Book | Background
State-building: theory and practice - Hehir, Aidan, Robinson, Neil, 2007

Book | Background
Exit strategies and state building - Caplan, Richard, c2012

Book | Background
From Danzig to East Timor and Beyond: The Role of International Territorial Administration
- Ralph Wilde, 2001
Sustainable peace: power and democracy after civil wars - Roeder, Philip G., Rothchild,
Donald S., 2005
Book | Background | Especially ‘Dilemmas of State-building in Divided Societies’
Empowerment or Imposition? Dilemmas of Local Ownership in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

Processes - Timothy Donais, 2009-01
Peacebuilding, Statebuilding, Nationbuilding – Turtles All the Way Down? - Catherine

Goetze, Dejan Guzina, 2008-12
Lessons from Afghanistan and Iraq - Zalmay Khalilzad, 2010
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Constructing a Democratic Iraq: Challenges and Opportunities - 2003-29-08

"Democracy" without a Demos? The Bosnian Constitutional Experiment and the Intentional
Construction of Nonfunctioning States - R. M. Hayden, 2005-05-01
Beyond international trusteeship: EU peacebuilding in Bosnia and Herzegovina - Stefano

Rechhia, 2007
International intervention in the Balkans since 1995 - Siani-Davies, Peter, 2003

Book | Background
Swords and ploughshares: bringing peace to the 21st century - Ashdown, Paddy, 2007
Book | Background
Empire in denial: the politics of state-building - Chandler, David, 2006

Bad Days in Basra - Hilary Synnott, 2008-09

Wings over Libya: The No-Fly Zone in Legal Perspective - Micheal N. Schmitt, 2012
Regime-Building - Oisín Tansey, 2009

Book | Background
The Causes of US Failure in Iraq - Toby Dodge, 2007-03

The Price of the Surge - Simon, Steven, 2008

The Iraq Study Group report - Baker, James Addison, Hamilton, Lee, Eagleburger, Lawrence
S., Iraq Study Group (U.S.), 2006
Book | Background
Iraq: Report of the UN SG

The Consequences of Forced State Failure in Iraq - Andrew Flibbert

Revisiting the Category of Fragile and Failed States in International Relations - M.

Nuruzzaman, 2013
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State-building and transitional Politics in Iraq: The Perlis of a Top-down Transition - Katia
Papagianni, 2007
The Problematic Legitimacy of International-Led Statebuilding: Challenges of Uniting

International and Local Interests in Post-Conflict Kosovo - Mulaj K., 2011
Week 11: Reconceptualising Post-Totalitarian and Post-War

Reconstruction (57 items)
Essay Questions: Is reconstruction the same as state building? How does economic
reconstruction differ from economic transition? Does a relational perspective advance
theorising about state-building?

The handbook of global security policy - Mary Kaldor, Iavor Rangelov, 2014
Book | Essential | Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic, Denisa Kostovicova and David Rampton,
‘State-building, nation-building and post-conflict reconstruction’ Chapter 15, pp 265 - 281
Legitimacy in State-Building: A Review of the IR Literature1 - Morten Skumsrud Andersen,

2012-06
Article | Essential
Explaining postconflict reconstruction - Desha M. Girod, 2015

Book | Essential | Chapter 2: Reconstruction Against All Odds and Chapter 7: Improving
Aid Effectiveness after Civil War
Chapter 1: Conceptualizing Peace

Chapter | Essential
Reclaiming the social: relationalism in anglophone international studies - Patrick Thaddeus

Jackson, Daniel H. Nexon, 2019-09-03
Article | Essential

Measuring peace: principles, practices, and politics - Richard Caplan, 2019
Book | Background
Why International Trusteeship Fails: The Politics of External Authority in Areas of Limited
Statehood - David A. Lake, Christopher J. Fariss, 2014-10
Post-conflict Statebuilding and State Legitimacy: From Negative to Positive Peace? - David
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Roberts, 2008-07
Persistent state weakness in the global age / - London School of Economics and Political
Science
Webpage | Background | Kostovicova, Denisa and Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic, ‘Conclusion:
Persistent State Weakness and Issues for Research, Methodology and Policy’
Realising the post-modern dream: Strengthening post-conflict resilience and the promise
of peace - Pol Bargués-Pedreny, 2015-04-09
Article | Background | Resilience Vol 3 Issue 2
Global Governance, Liberal Peace, and Complex Emergency - Michael Dillon
and
Julian Reid, 2000

Article | Background | Alternatives Vol 25 Issue 1
State building and the non-state: debating key dilemmas - Sukanya Podder, 2014-10-21
State Building, Security and Development: state building as a new development paradigm?
- Heather Marquette, Danielle Beswick, 2011-11
External Actors, State-Building, and Service Provision in Areas of Limited Statehood:

Introduction - Stephen D. Krasner, Thomas Risse, 2014-10
Rethinking State–building in a Failed State - Seth Kaplan, 2010-01

Organized crime, political transitions, and state formation in post-Soviet Eurasia -

Alexander Kupatadze, Palgrave Connect (Online Service), 2012
Book | Background
Political economy of statebuilding: power after peace - Berdal, Mats R., Zaum, Dominik,
2011
Book | Background
Post-Conflict Peacebuilding, Liberal Irrelevance and the Locus of Legitimacy - David

Roberts, 2011-08
Rebuilding governance in failed states and post-conflict societies: core concepts and
cross-cutting themes - Derick W. Brinkerhoff, 2005-02
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Informality, inequality and social reintegration in post-war transition - Bojicic-Dzelilovic,

Vesna, 2013
Corrupting Peace? Peacebuilding and Post-conflict Corruption - Philippe Le Billon, 2008-06

State Fragility and Governance: Conflict Mitigation and Subnational Perspectives - Derick
W. Brinkerhoff, 2011-03
World Development Report 2011: Conflict, Security, and Development (World Bank: World
Development Report) - 1 Jan 2011
Ending wars, consolidating peace: economic perspectives - Berdal, Mats R., Wennmann,
Achim, International Institute for Strategic Studies, 2010
Book | Background | Especially "Crime, Corruption and Violent Economies"
Turbulent peace: the challenges of managing international conflict - Crocker, Chester A.,
Hampson, Fen Osler, Aall, Pamela R., 2001
Book | Background | Especially ‘The Challenge of Rebuilding War-torn Societies’, pp.
719-736
Reconstruction Survey: The Political Economy of Corruption in Post-War Lebanon - Khalil

Gebara, 2007
Document | Background | Especially "Corruption in Post-War Lebanon"
Reconstruction: An Agenda - Amitai Etzioni, 2007

Building states to build peace - Call, Charles, Wyeth, Vanessa, International Peace
Academy, 2008
Book | Background | Especially Part I, pp25-187
Theories, rhetoric and practice: Recovering the capacities of war-torn societies - Sultan
Barakat, Margaret Chard, 2002-10
From war to democracy: dilemmas of peacebuilding - Jarstad, Anna, Sisk, Timothy D., 2008
Book | Background
Towards a new agenda for transforming war economies - Mandy Turner, Michael Pugh,
2006-10
The international community and state reconstruction in war‐torn societies - Robin

Luckham, 2004-12
Recovering from civil conflict: reconciliation, peace, and development - Newman, Edward,
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Schnabel, Albrecht, 2002

Book | Background | Especially Introduction pp1-17
Post- war Peacebuilding Reviewed: A Critical Exploration of Generic Approaches to

Post-war Reconstruction - Monica Llamazares, 2005
Ending civil wars: the implementation of peace agreements - Stedman, Stephen John,
Rothchild, Donald S., Cousens, Elizabeth M., 2002
Book | Background
Peacebuilding as politics: cultivating peace in fragile societies - Cousens, Elizabeth M.,

Kumar, Chetan, Wermester, Karin, 2001
Book | Background
Development and change - Institute of Social Studies(Netherlands), 2002

Journal | Background | Special Issue: State Failure, Collapse and Reconstruction.
Rising From the Ashes? The Difficult (Re)Birth of the Georgian State. - Spyros Demetriou,
2002
Postconflict development: meeting new challenges - Junne, Gerd, Verkoren, Willemijn,

c2005
Book | Background | Especially "Economic Policy for Building Peace", pp185-210
Peacebuilding in the Balkans: the view from the ground floor - Pickering, Paula M., 2007
Book | Background
Development and transition. - James Hughes and Ben Slay, 2005

At war's end: building peace after civil conflict - Paris, Roland, 2004
Book | Background | Especially Chapter 10 "Toward More Effective Peacebuilding",
pp.179-211
When states fail: causes and consequences - Rotberg, Robert I., c2004
Book | Background | Especially ‘Civil Society and the Reconstruction of Failed States’
The Calm before the Storm: The British Experience in Southern Iraq - Micheal Knights, Ed
Williams, 2007
WHERE IS IRAQ HEADING? LESSONS FROM BASRA - International Crisis Group, 2007
Document | Background | Middle East Report No.67
Addressing Ethnic Divisions in Post-Conflict Institution-Building: Lessons from Recent

Cases - S. G. Simonsen, 2005-09-01
The Imperative to Rebuild: Assessing the Normative Case for Postconflict Reconstruction -
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Planning post-conflict reconstruction in Iraq: what can we learn? - ANDREW RATHMELL,

2005-10
Methodology and the study of state-building in the Western Balkans - Suan L. Woodward,
Denisa Kostovicova, Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic, 2012
Locating power in state-building: the conflict network perspective - Vesna

Bojicic-Dzelilovic, Denisa Kostovicova, 2012
Europeanisation and conflict networks: private sector development in post-conflict

Bosnia–Herzegovina - Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic, Denisa Kostovicova, 2013-03
Article | Background | ONLY pages 20-22 for a relational perspective on state-building
Towards Better Theories of Peacebuilding: Beyond the Liberal Peace Debate

Introduction: Beyond Northern Epistemologies of Peace: Peacebuilding Reconstructed? -

Kristoffer Lidén, Roger Mac Ginty, Oliver P. Richmond, 2009-11
THE NON-LINEARITY OF PEACE PROCESSES: THEORY AND PRACTICE OF SYSTEMATIC

CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION - Mayanja, Evelyn N, Sep 2013
Article | Background | Especially Introduction Chapter
A state built on sand: how opium undermined Afghanistan - David Mansfield, 2016
Book | Background
Conflicted Corporates: Rethinking the Role of Business in Global Security - Mary Martin,
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Week 1: Introduction - Globalisation and Totalitarianism (30 items)

Essential Reading (4 items)

The political forms of modern society: bureaucracy, democracy, totalitarianism - Claude

Further Reading (25 items)

Global transformations: politics, economics and culture - Held, David, 1999

Nations and nationalism in a global era - Smith, Anthony D., 1995

The rise of the network society - Castells, Manuel, 2000

Imagining the Balkans - Todorova, Mariëiìa Nikolaeva, 2009

Global civil society: an answer to war - Kaldor, Mary, 2003

Beyond totalitarianism: Stalinism and Nazism compared - Geyer, Michael, Fitzpatrick,

What is globalization? - Ulrich Beck, 2000

Beck, U. (2003) ‘The Analysis of Global Inequality: From National to Cosmopolitan

Nothing to envy: ordinary lives in North Korea - Demick, Barbara, 2009

Totalitarian and Post-Totalitarian Regimes in Transitions and Non-Transitions from

The Totalitarian State - Waldemar Gurian, 1978

The Post-Totalitarian Blues - Deborah M. Brissman, Jacques Rupnik, 1995

To Shoot or Not to Shoot: Posttotalitarianism in China and Eastern Europe - Mark R.

Tyrants and Terrorists: Reflections on the Connection between Totalitarianism,

Totalitarianism and Rationality - Zbigniew Brzezinski, 1956

Islamism and Totalitarianism: Similarities and Differences - Michael Whine, 2001-09

Week 2: A Critique of Democratic Transition Theory (49 items)

Essential Reading (4 items)

What the democratization literature says-or doesn't say-about postwar democratization -

The Pipe Dream of Undemocratic Liberalism - Sheri Berman

Further Reading (44 items)

Democratization Studies: Citizenship, Globalization and Governance - Jean Grugel, 2003-04

The Tragedy of Liberal Diplomacy: Democratization, Intervention, Statebuilding (Part I) -

The Tragedy of Liberal Diplomacy: Democratization, Intervention, Statebuilding (Part II) -

Democracy from the Outside-In? International Organizations and Democratization -

Transitions to democracy: a comparative perspective - Stoner, Kathryn, McFaul, Michael,

Democratic Triumph, Scholarly Pessimism - Bruce Gilley, 2009

Comparative Democratization: Big and Bounded Generalizations - V. Bunce, 2000-09-01

Europeanizing the Balkans: Rethinking the Post-communist and Post-conflict Transition -

The End of the Transition Paradigm - Thomas Carothers, 2002

The Balkans: Democracy Without Choices - Ivan Krastev, 2002

How Different are Postcommunist Transitions? - Ghia Nodia, 1996

International Linkage and Democratization - Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way, 2005

Domestic and Transnational Perspectives on Democratization - Hans Peter Schmitz,

Democratization and Democratic Consolidation in Post-communist Politics - Ishiyama, John

The structural context of recent transitions to democracy - RENSKE DOORENSPLEET,

Post-civil war democratization: promotion of democracy in post-civil war states, 1946–2005

Iraq: A Vote Against Sectarianism - Adeed Dawisha, 2010

The Lessons of 1989 - Lucan Way, 2011

Building Democracy While Building Peace

The consolidation of democracy in East-Central Europe - Dawisha, Karen, Parrott, Bruce,

Democratic consolidation in Eastern Europe - Zielonka, Jan, 2001-

The International dimensions of democratization: Europe and the Americas - Whitehead,

Inequality, Democratization, and De-Democratization - Charles Tilly, 2003

Democracy from the Outside-In? International Organizations and Democratization - Jon C.

Democratic consolidation in Eastern Europe - Zielonka, Jan, 2001-

Embracing democracy in the western Balkans: from postconflict struggles toward

Forced to Be Free?: Why Foreign-Imposed Regime Change Rarely Leads to

Internal and external factors in the democratization of Azerbaijan - Aytan Gahramanova,

Week 3: New Wars Debate (48 items)

Essential Reading (3 items)