The Role of International Law in Rebuilding Societies after Conflict: Great Expectations Book

Contributors page vii

Preface xiii

Abbreviations xv

Introduction Brett Bowden Hilary Charlesworth Jeremy Farrall 1

1 The 'state-building enterprise': Legal doctrine, progress narratives and managerial governance Outi Korhonen 15

2 Democratisation, state-building and politics as technology Nehal Bhuta 38

3 International law, human rights and the transformative occupation of Iraq Peter G. Danchin 64

4 Defining democracy in international institutions Brett Bowden and Hilary Charlesworth 90

5 Democracy and legitimation: Challenges in the reconstitution of political processes in Afghanistan William Maley 111

6 Impossible expectations? The UN Security Council's promotion of the rule of law after conflict Jeremy Farrall 134

7 Legal pluralism and the challenge of building the rule of law in post-conflict states: A case study of Timor-Leste Laura Grenfell 157

8 From paper to practice: The role of treaty ratification post-conflict Helen Durham 177

9 Selective universality? Human-rights accountability of the UN in post-conflict operations Annemarie Devereux 198

10 'Security starts with the law': The role of international law in the protection of women's security post-conflict Amy Maguire 218

11 Grappling in the Great Lakes: The challenges of international justice in Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda Phil Clark 244

Conclusion: Hope and humility for weavers with international law John Braithwaite 270

Select Bibliography 289

Index 315