Is America an empire? Certainly not, according to our government. Despite the conquest of
two sovereign states in as many years, despite the presence of more than 750 military …

Despite the dramatic reduction in explicit barriers to international investment activity over the
last 60 years, the impact of financial globalization has been surprisingly limited. I argue that …

This study examines the implicit conceptualisation and apparent transformation of the
discourse of peace both as an ideal, unachievable or achievable form, or as a subjective …

Since the 1990s, development agencies and international institutions have promoted private-
sector involvement in infrastructure, assuming that this would inject both investment and …

Abstract The UN Millennium Project Task Force on Education and Gender Equality, an
expert advisory group commissioned by the UN Secretary‐General, was asked to examine …

In a nation-building operation, outside states invest much of their resources in establishing
and maintaining the host country's police, internal security forces, and justice system. This …

Abstract Jacint Jordana and David Levi-Faur have provided systematic evidence that, since
1980, states have become rather more preoccupied with steering and less with rowing. Yet …

Efforts to improve national and international capabilities to plan and manage post-conflict
reconstruction operations are underway in many countries and are high on the agenda of …

This article argues that the democratic peace theorists have overlooked the defining
development that underlies that peace of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: the …

This article introduces a critical approach to the analysis of post-conflict peacebuilding
(PCPB). It acknowledges the latter's complex nature, questions sophisticated social …