02342nam 2200361z- 450 991036759040332120231214115503.0(CKB)4100000010106013(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/44616(EXLCZ)99410000001010601320202102d2017 |y 0engurmn|---annantxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierDecolonising Intervention: International Statebuilding in MozambiqueRowman & Littlefield International20171 electronic resource (184 p.)Kilombo: International Relations and Colonial Questions1-78348-275-3 Building, or re-building, states after war or crisis is a contentious process. But why? Sabaratnam argues that to best answer the question, we need to engage with the people who are supposedly benefiting from international ‘expertise’. This book challenges and enhances standard ‘critical’ narratives of statebuilding by exploring the historical experiences and interpretive frameworks of the people targeted by intervention. Drawing on face-to-face interviews, archival research, policy reviews and in-country participant-observations carried out over several years, the author challenges assumptions underpinning external interventions, such as the incapacity of ‘local’ agents to govern and the necessity of ‘liberal’ values in demanding better governance. The analysis focuses on Mozambique, long hailed as one of international donors’ great success stories, but whose peaceful, prosperous, democratic future now hangs in the balance. The conclusions underscore the significance of thinking with rather than for the targets of state-building assistance, and appreciating the historical and material conditions which underpin these reform efforts.Decolonising InterventionInternational RelationsPostcolonial PoliticsColonialismComparative PoliticsIdentityMeera Sabaratnamauth1329496BOOK9910367590403321Decolonising Intervention: International Statebuilding in Mozambique3039514UNINA