Product Description: This book aims at a deeper understanding of social processes, dynamics and institutions shaping collective violence. It argues that violence is a social practice that adheres to social logics and, in its collective form, appears as recurrent patterns...read more

Product Description: This book examines the ways in which long-term processes of state-formation limit the possibilities for short-term political projects of statebuilding. Using process-oriented approaches, the contributing authors explore what happens when conscious efforts at statebuilding ‘meet’ social contexts, and are transformed into daily routines...read more

Product Description: Ausgezeichnet mit dem Deutschen Studienpreis 2009, Sektion Sozialwissenschaften. Statebuilding ist zu einer Kernaufgabe globalen Regierens avanciert. Bisherige Versuche, durch internationale Interventionen Staaten nach westlichem Muster zu formen, sind jedoch hinter ihren Zielen zurückgeblieben...read more