State-Building, Democratization and Politics as Technology

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Nehal Bhuta

European University Institute; European University Institute - Department of Law (LAW)

Date Written: December 2008

Abstract

The paper attempts to develop a critical history of the contemporary uses of state-building and “democracy-building” as frameworks governing increasingly intensive interventions in the politics of post colonial societies (so called "post conflict peace-building"). It develops this critical history in part by situating the emergence of these concepts and programs within the history of American political science, and within geopolitical history of the last 20 years. The paper also points to an analogy between imperial liberal reform and contemporary notions of state-building, which have in common a notion of “politics as technology”

Keywords: state-building, democratization, international law, politics as technology

Suggested Citation

Bhuta, Nehal, State-Building, Democratization and Politics as Technology (December 2008). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1574349 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1574349

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