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Staatlichkeit in Zeiten des Statebuilding : Intervention und Herrschaft in Bosnien und Herzegowina

This monograph is based on the results of the submitter's PhD research which received the German Studies Award (Deutscher Studienpreis) 2009, Germany’s most highly remunerated PhD prize (30,000 Euros) awarded by Körber Foundation. Among over 500 high quality dissertations, this work was awarded with the first prize. The jury, composed of academics and politicians, stressed the high relevance of this research for West-European societies and politics within the framework of 21st century global governance.

The monograph deals with the structural limits of international peace- and statebuilding. The author chose a sociological approach to the study of an IR problem, combining it further with insights from political economics and social anthropology, to explore the state-strengthening and state-weakening dynamics brought about by the contemporary international politics of statebuilding. This way she was able to show that international statebuilding interventions tend to build state façades that resemble the Western model, while at the same time leaving the state-society relations behind this façade largely unconsolidated.