Semantics of Statebuilding : Language, Meanings and Sovereignty (Paperback)

1. Introduction: Disputing Weberian Semantics, Nicolas Lemay-Hebert, Nicholas Onuf and Vojin Raki?  2. World-Making, State-Building, Nicholas Onuf  3. Politics, Law, and the Sacred: A Conceptual Analysis, Friedrich Kratochwil  4. Kant’s Semantics of World (State) Making, Vojin Raki?  5. The semantics of early statebuilding: Why the Eurasian steppe has been overlooked, Iver B. Neumann  6. The Semantics of Statebuilding and Nationbuilding: Looking Beyond Neo-Weberian Approaches, Nicolas Lemay-Hebert  7. Transformative Statebuilding, Occupation, and International Law: Friends or Foes?, Jan Wouters and Kenneth Chan  8. The Semantics of ‘Crisis Management’: Simulation and EU Statebuilding in the Balkans, David Chandler  9. The Semantics of Contemporary Statebuilding: Kosovo, Timor-Leste, and the ‘Empty-Shell’ Approach, Nicolas Lemay-Hebert  10. The ‘Crisis of Capitalism’ and the State ? More Powerful, Less Responsible, Invariably Legitimate, Albena Azmanova  11. The Neoliberal Biopolitics of Resilience and the Spectre of the Ecofascist State, Julian Reid