Table of Contents:
Chapter 1. The ‘state-building enterprise’: Legal doctrine, progress narratives and managerial governance.
Chapter 2. Democratisation, state-building and politics as technology.
Chapter 3. International law, human rights and the transformative occupation of Iraq.
Chapter 4. Defining democracy in international institutions.
Chapter 5. Democracy and legitimation: Challenges in the reconstitution of political processes in Afghanistan.
Chapter 6. Impossible expectations? The UN Security Council’s promotion of the rule of law after conflict.
Chapter 7. Legal pluralism and the challenge of building the rule of law in post-conflict states: A case study of Timor-Leste.
Chapter 8. From paper to practice: The role of treaty ratification post-conflict.
Chapter 9. Selective universality? Human-rights accountability of the UN in post-conflict operations.
Chapter 10. ‘Security starts with the law’: The role of international law in the protection of women’s security post-conflict.
Chapter 11. Grappling in the Great Lakes: The challenges of international justice in Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda.
Conclusion
Bibliography.
Index