02512nam a22003137a 4500 51360 51360 20190909154402.0 190625b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781783482757 ;Atlantic Publishers & Distributors :7/22 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi :1097323 :19/06/19 967.9052 SAB Sabaratnam, Meera Decolonising intervention : international statebuilding in Mozambique / Meera Sabaratnam New York : Rowman & Littlefield International, 2017 x, 173 pages ; 24 cm 2335 Kilombo (Series) Introduction -- Intervention, statebuilding and Eurocentrism -- Strategies for decolonising intervention -- The state under intervention -- Intervention and peasantry -- Anti-corruption and the limits of intervention -- Conclusions: Decolonising intervention, decolonising international relations. Building, or re-building, states after war or crisis is a contentious process. But why? [The author] argues that to best answer the question, we need to engage with the people who are supposedly benefiting from international 'expertise'. This book challenges and enhances standard 'critical' narratives of statebuilding by exploring the historical experiences and interpretive frameworks of the people targeted by intervention. Drawing on face-to-face interviews, archival research, policy reviews and in-country participant-observations carried out over several years, the author challenges assumptions underpinning external interventions, such as the incapacity of 'local' agents to govern and the necessity of 'liberal' values in demanding better governance. The analysis focuses on Mozambique, long hailed as one of international donors' great success stories, but whose peaceful, prosperous, democratic future now hangs in the balance. The conclusions underscore the significance of thinking with rather than for the targets of state-building assistance, and appreciating the historical and material conditions which underpin these reform efforts." History History of Africa Central Africa & offshore islands Decolonization -- Mozambique. Mozambique -- Politics and government -- 1994- Politics and government. United Nations. United Nations -- Mozambique -- History.. Sabaratnam, Meera BOOK 0 0 ddc 0 1 SNUL SNUL 2019-06-25 Atlantic Publishers & Distributors 2335.00 0 967.9052 SAB 26408 2019-06-25 00:00:00 2019-06-25 BOOK