The Oxford Handbook of Governance and Limited Statehood
Abstract
Unpacking the major debates, leading authors of the field provide a state-of-the-art guide to governance in areas of limited statehood (ALS) where state authorities lack the capacity to implement and enforce central decision and/or to uphold the monopoly over the means of violence. While ALS can be found everywhere—not just in the global South—they are neither ungoverned nor ungovernable. Rather, a variety of actors maintain public order and safety, as well as provide public goods and services. While external state ‘governors’ and their interventions in the global South have received special scholarly attention, various non-state actors—from non-governmental organizations to business to violent armed groups—have emerged that also engage in governance. This evidence holds for diverse policy fields and historical cases. The handbook gives a comprehensive picture of the varieties of governance in ALS from interdisciplinary perspectives including political science, geography, history, law, and economics. Twenty-nine chapters review the academic scholarship and explore the conditions of effective and legitimate governance in ALS, as well as its implications for world politics in the twenty-first century. The authors examine theoretical and methodological approaches, as well as the historical and spatial dimensions of ALS. The chapters deal with the various governors as well as their modes of governance. They cover a variety of issue areas and explore the implications for the international legal order, for normative theory, and for policies toward ALS.
Keywords:
governance,
statehood,
areas of limited statehood,
effectiveness,
public goods,
legitimacy,
global South,
non-state actors and governance,
international organizations,
foreign aid
Bibliographic Information
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Print Publication Date:
- Mar 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780198797203
- Published online:
- Apr 2018
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198797203.001.0001
Editors
Anke Draude,
editor
Anke Draude is a postdoctoral research associate at the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
Tanja A. Börzel,
editor
Tanja A. Börzel is professor of political science and European integration at the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
Thomas Risse,
editor
Thomas Risse is Director, Center for Transnational Studies, Foreign- and Security Policy (ATASP) and Collaborative Research Center “Governance in Areas of Limited Staatehood”, Free University, Berlin
