Franchised States and the Bureaucracy of Peace

• Main Author: Schia, Niels Nagelhus (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies
• Subjects: Peace.; Conflict Studies.; Peace Studies.

This book examines a new type of state formation evoked by the rise of transnational rule, what Schia calls franchised states. Drawing on anthropological studying-through fieldwork within the UN organization, he demonstrates how peacebuilding activities turned Liberia into an object of governing, wh...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Franchised States and Ownershipping
• Chapter 2: Understanding Peacebuilding Through Anthropological Perspectives on Organizations and Sovereignty
• Chapter 3: Studying Through: People and Places
• Chapter 4: Liberia and the History of a Franchised State
• Chapter 5: Producing State Effects: Everyday Practices and Diplomacy in the UN Security Council
• Chapter 6: Implementing the Franchise
• Chapter 7: Bureaucratic Entrepreneurship: Liberian Ministries, International Consultants and Making Connections
• Chapter 8: Being a UN Bureaucrat: Policy Making in the UN Secretariat
• Chapter 9: Fringes of the Franchised State
• Chapter 9: Fringes of the Franchised State
• Chapter 10: Franchised States and Beyond.