Statebuilding from the bottom up: foreign interveners, local governance, and stabilisation

Thesis

This thesis interrogates an increasingly prevalent narrative regarding international statebuilding interventions. A growing policy consensus, as well as an incipient body of academic literature, contends that “bottom-up statebuilding” presents a viable alternative to the international community’s traditional liberal statebuilding models, focused on top-down approaches and national-level institutions and actors. In practice, bottom-up statebuilding interventions often take the form of local...

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Authors: Brown, FZ

• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: International peacebuilding missions; Afghanistan; stabilisation; subnational governance; Statebuilding; local governance
• Subjects: Afghanistan; statebuilding; U.S. foreign policy; local governance