The new protectorates : international tutelage and the making of liberal states / James Mayall, Ricardo Soares De Oliveira, editors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Protectorates new and old: a concenptual critique / William Bain -- The European empires and international order: model or trap? / James Mayall -- Africa and trusteeship in the modern global order / Christopher Clapham -- Paternal authority, civilized state: China's evolving attitude towards international trusteeships -- India and the challenge of the new protectorates / Aswini Ray -- The European pull in the Balkans / Spyros Economides -- US foreign policy and the new protectorates in historical perspective / Stefan Halper -- Peace operations and modern protectorates / Wolfgang Seibel -- The normative underpinnings of the UN Peacebuilding Commission / Richard Caplan and Richard Ponzio -- Policing the neo-imperial frontier: CIVPOL missions in the new protectorates / Michael Boyle -- The political economy of protectorates and post-conflict intervention -- Civil-military relations in the new protectorate / John Drewienkiewicz -- Struggling for government leadership: the relationship between Afghan and international actors in post-2001 Afghanistan / Clare Lockhart -- The new protectorates: statebuilding and legitimacy / Dominik Zaum.

German troops fighting the Taliban in the Hindu Kush; EU judges sitting in courts in the Balkans; UN viceroys governing parts of Oceania; American occupation of the Middle East. Amid the myriad political experiences of the post-Cold War era, the historians of the future are likely to pay particular attention to attempts by outsiders to administer a host of post-conflict societies, to perform physical and social reconstruction, to establish functioning institutions, to open economies and, ultimately, to transform the {u2018}maladjusted{u2019} political cultures of Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Few developments in the twodecades after 1989 were as revealing of the character of the international system, of the gaps between liberal discourse and practice, and of the fleeting nature of the Western hegemonic moment. What made the new protectorates possible? What were they like as an actual political experience? How contradictory was their reception? Why was the process of governing others for their own good so flawed and the outcomes so disappointing? These are among the questions addressed by some of the leading authorities in the field, including Stefan Halper, Christopher Clapham, Mats Berdal and Richard Caplan.