Abstract
Although the idea of state-building is at least as contentious as the idea of the state itself, international technocrats and foreign policymakers remain resigned to this project. International state-building has been conceived of as maintaining intermestic social order, protecting individual rights, and consolidating transnational linkages of power. Yet whatever the motive, effect or standard form of state-building, some political organization called “the state” is a necessary condition for membership in international society, if not for protecting individual human rights.
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Saeger, Chris
(2005)
"State-Building in Bosnia,"
Human Rights & Human Welfare: Vol. 5:
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1, Article 37.
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