Semantics of statebuilding [electronic resource] : language, meanings and sovereignty / edited by Nicolas Lemay-Hebert ... [et al.].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction : disputing Weberian semantics / Nicolas Lemay-Hebert, Nicholas Onuf and Vojin Rakic -- 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 Rakic -- 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.