New Protectorates
International Tutelage and the Making of Liberal States
edited by James Mayall and Ricardo Soares de Oliveira
Reviews and Awards
"The editors turn a critical eye on the role of external actors in post-war societies. [...] Both optimistic and skeptical readers will find evidence to suit their arguments in this important volume; but the balance of evidence will better suit the pessimists. Practitioners would do well to read it closely."--Bruce Jones, Director and Senior Fellow of the Center on International Cooperation, NYU and Senior Fellow and Director of the Managing Global Insecurity Program at the Brookings Institution
"This is a valuable, timely and authoritative examination of the causes and failures of western-led humanitarian interventionism in the post-Cold War period. The authors conclude that if nation-building on the lines of a liberal state, politically free and economically open, was impossible in Bosnia and Kosovo in Europe, it was even more unlikely to be viable, let alone to be perceived as legitimate, in Iraq, Afghanistan or Libya."--Krishnan Srinivasan, former Foreign Secretary, Government of India and Deputy Secretary General of the Commonwealth
"The book starts off with a superb introduction by the editors, offering a clear and insightful perspective on the motivations for the enterprise of international governance and liberal statebuilding and the gaps between discourse and practice...[It] then proceeds in two main parts, outlining firstly the historical context and reception of the new protectorates (chapters one to seven) and subsequently their governance (chapters eight to fourteen). The chapters are crisp and refreshing in style, while providing excellent and succinct summaries. Each of them is a real addition to the literature...an essential read for students, academics and policy-makers engaged in international security, and ought to be on any such reading list."--International Affairs
