Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / David Chandler -- Ownership in theory and practice : transfer of authority in UN statebuilding operations / Simon Chesterman -- Do the root causes of civil war matter? On using knowledge to improve peacebuilding interventions / Susan L. Woodward -- The myth of the failed state and the War on Terror : a challenge to the conventional wisdom / Aidan Hehir -- Reconstruction : an agenda / Amitai Etzioni -- State-building and force : the proper role of foreign militaries / Kimberly Marten -- Police restructuring in Bosnia-Herzegovina : problems of security sector reform / Thomas Muehlmann -- Hybrid polities and indigenous pluralities : advanced lessons in statebuilding from Cambodia / David Roberts -- Debt, development and intervention in Africa : the contours of a sovereign frontier / Graham Harrison -- The tragedy of liberal diplomacy / Beate Jahn.