Empire in Denial: The Politics of State-Building

by David Chandler

This book argues that state-building, as it is currently conceived, does not work. In the 1990s, interventionist policies challenged the rights of individual states to self-governance. Today, non-western states are more likely to be feted by international institutions offering programmes of poverty-reduction, democratisation and good governance. States without the right of self-government will always lack legitimate authority. The international policy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745324282
• ISBN13: 9780745324289
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.5"