Cover; Half Title; Series Information; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter One Introduction; Exploring the Politics of Intervention; Decolonising International Relations; Researching Intervention in Mozambique; Structure of the Book; Notes; Part I Decolonising Critique; Chapter Two Intervention, Statebuilding and Eurocentrism; The Beginner's Guide to Nation-Building; What Is Eurocentrism and How Does It Locate the Political?; Critiques of Intervention and the Problem of Eurocentrism; Bypassing the Targets of Intervention: Research Design Bypassing the Targets of Intervention: Governmentality ApproachesOntologies of Otherness: Liberal-Local Relations, Hybridity and Resistance; The 'Everyday' and Hermeneutic Containment; Nostalgia for Social Contract Politics, Welfare Democracy and the Liberal Political Subject; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter Three Strategies for Decolonising Intervention; Strategies for Reconstructing Subjecthood; Recovering Historical Presence; Engaging Political Consciousness; Investigating Material Realities; Feminist Standpoint, 'Objectivity' and Epistemic Privilege; Conclusion to Part I; Notes Part II Rethinking InterventionChapter Four The State Under Intervention; Building the Postcolonial State; International Intervention in Mozambique after the War; What Kind of State Has Been Built?; Fragmentation of State Infrastructure; Disappearance of Human Resources; Capacity-Building?; Citizen Experiences of Public Services under Intervention; Thinking Like a Target of International Intervention; Notes; Chapter Five Intervention and the Peasantry; The Political Significance of the Peasantry; Peasant Experiences of Intervention in the Agricultural Sector; Promoting Productivity Rural FinancingProducing for the Market; Agricultural Policies, the State and International Intervention; The Peasant Movement and Alternative Visions of Development; The Mozambican Peasantry and the Long View of Intervention; Notes; Chapter Six Anti-Corruption and the Limits of Intervention; Good Governance and the Prospect of Radical Critique; 'Isso Não Acontecia se Samora Estivesse Vivo'
'This Would Not Be Happening If Samora Was Alive'; Bloodsucking, Greed and Power; Anti-Corruption and Intervention; Notes Chapter Seven Conclusions: Decolonising Intervention, Decolonising International Relations What Have We Learned about International Statebuilding? Protagonismo, Disposability, Entitlement and Dependency; Coloniality of Power as Structural Account of International Intervention; (How) Can We Decolonise Intervention?; Notes; References; Index; About the Author

Explores the experiences of intervention in Mozambique to examine the efficacy of colonial approaches to post-crisis statebuilding.