Regulating Statehood: State Building and the Transformation of the Global Order (Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific)

In The Post-cold War Years Failed States Have Become A Major Security Concern For Policymakers. Prevalent Scholarly Approaches Evaluate State Building Interventions In Terms Of Whether They Produce 'more' Or 'less' State. In Contrast, Shahar Hameiri Argues That State Building Interventions Are Creating A New Form Of Transnationally Regulated Statehood. Using Case-studies From The Asia-pacific, He Analyzes The Politics Of State Building And The Implications For Contemporary Statehood And The Global Order. This Book Examines The Effects Of State Building On The Distribution, Production And Reproduction Of Political Power: Who Rules And How? What Conflicts Are Engendered Or Exacerbated By State Building, And How Are They Managed? What Coalitions Support The Production Or Reproduction Of Power Relationships Associated With These Interventions? It Establishes That Whether Or Not Such Interventions Meet Their Objectives, They Have Led To The Emergence Of Anti-pluralist Forms Of Political Rule Within And Between States. Introduction : Regulatory State Building And The Transformation Of Statehood -- Beyond Methodological Nationalism, Towards A New Regulatory Framework -- State Building, Risk Management And The Transformation Of The State -- State Building : The Emergency Of The New Mode Of Governance -- Who Intervenes? : State Transformation And The Meta-governance Of State Building -- Australian Federal Police And Australia's New Regional Frontier -- Regional Assistance Mission To Solomon Islands And The Politics Of State Transformation -- State Building, Patronage And The Anti-pluralist Politics Of Stability In Cambodia -- Conclusion : Transformed Statehood And The Politics Of Scale. Shahar Hameiri. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Shahar Hameiri argues that state building interventions are creating a new form of transnationally regulated statehood. Using case-studies from the Asia-Pacific, he analyzes the politics of state building and the implications for contemporary statehood and the global order. In the post-Cold War years failed states have become a major security concern for policymakers. Prevalent scholarly approaches evaluate state building interventions in terms of whether they produce 'more' or 'less' state. In contrast, Shahar Hameiri argues that state building interventions are creating a new form of transnationally regulated statehood. Using case-studies from the Asia-Pacific, he analyzes the politics of state building and the implications for contemporary statehood and the global order. This book examines the effects of state building on the distribution, production and reproduction of political power: Who rules and how? What conflicts are engendered or exacerbated by state building, and how are they managed? What coalitions support the production or reproduction of power relationships associated with these interventions? It establishes that whether or not such interventions meet their objectives, they have led to the emergence of anti-pluralist forms of political rule within and between states In the post-Cold War years failed states have become a major security concern for policymakers. Prevalent scholarly approaches evaluate state building interventions in terms of whether they produce 'more' or 'less' state. In contrast, the author argues that state building interventions are creating a new form of transnationally regulated statehood. Using case-studies from the Asia-Pacific, he analyzes the politics of state building and the implications for contemporary statehood and the global order. This book examines the effects of state building on the distribution, production and reproduction of political power: Who rules and how? What conflicts are engendered or exacerbated by state building, and how are they managed? What coalitions support the production or reproduction of power relationships associated with these interventions? It establishes that whether or not such interventions meet their objectives, they have led to the emergence of anti-pluralist forms of political rule within and between states Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 8 Acknowledgements......Page 10 List of Abbreviations......Page 11 Introduction: Regulatory State Building and the Transformation of Statehood......Page 14 1 Beyond Methodological Nationalism, Towards a New Regulatory Framework......Page 23 2 State Building, Risk Management and the Transformation of the State......Page 52 3 State Building: The Emergence of a New Mode of Governance......Page 77 4 Who Intervenes? State Transformation and the Meta-Governance of State Building......Page 105 5 The Australian Federal Police and Australia’s New Regional Frontier......Page 130 6 The Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands and the Politics of State Transformation......Page 160 7 State Building, Patronage and the Anti-Pluralist Politics of Stability in Cambodia......Page 190 Conclusion: Transformed Statehood and the Politics of Scale......Page 221 Notes......Page 228 Bibliography......Page 231 Index......Page 255