International Territorial Administration How Trusteeship and the Civilizing Mission Never Went Away

Name: International Territorial Administration How Trusteeship and the Civilizing Mission Never Went Away
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ISBN: 9780199274321

ISBN-10: 0199274320

ISBN-13: 9780199274321

Edition: 2006

Authors: Ralph Wilde

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The book is the first comprehensive treatment of the reasons why international organizations have engaged in territorial administration, from the League of Nations in Danzig during the inter-war period, to the UN in East Timor recently and Kosovo today. Moving beyond the fashionable and misleading use of terms like 'post-conflict reconstruction' and 'state-building' to describe the role of international territorial administration, this book engages in a complex analysis of thevarious purposes with which this activity has been associated, some of which - for example settling disputes over sovereignty - have nothing to do with perceived local incapacities for governance.The book goes beyond…

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List price: $165.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/25/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 640
Size: 6.42" wide x 9.49" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.442
Language: English



Principal Abbreviations and Acronyms


List of Tables


Format for Sources, Citations, and Footnotes



A New Field of Analysis



Introduction



Some Presentations of Recent Projects Involving Territorial Administration by International Organizations



Exceptionalism



Purposive simplification



Discipline



Determining the Subject-Matter: 'International Territorial Administration'



What activity?



Which administering actor?



Linking the actor with the activity



Defining the 'international' actor



Defining international territorial administration



Purposive Analysis: the Idea of the 'Policy Institution'



Policy institution



Certain methodological challenges



An Overview of this Book



The Institution of International Territorial Administration



Introduction



The Historic Use of International Territorial Administration



Projects between the First and Second World Wars



Projects since 1945



Projects concerning consultations



Projects never agreed or implemented



An activity spanning the 20th century



Into the 21st Century



Administration of 'refugee' camps and provision of assistance to refugees and internally displaced people



Distribution of humanitarian supplies



The Office of the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina (OHR)



International appointees



Bosnia and Herzegovina-general



Human rights, criminal justice, and 'truth-telling' bodies



Electoral bodies



Conclusion



The Idea of International Territorial Sovereignty



Introduction



Ydit's 'Internationalised Territories' Thesis



Claims and Territorial Status



Conclusion



Host Territories-States and State Territories



Introduction



Inter-War Quartet: the Saar Territory, the Free City of Danzig, the Memel Territory, and Leticia



The Saar Territory 1920-35



The Free City of Danzig 1920-39



Memel 1924-39



Leticia 1933-34



Newly Independent Congo 1960-64



States and State Territories After the End of the Cold War: Cambodia, Somalia, and Northern Iraq



Cambodia 1991-93



Somalia 1992-95



The Governorates of Arbil, Dihouk, and Suleimaniyeh in Northern Iraq 1996-2003



Balkan Quartet: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mostar, Eastern Slavonia, and Kosovo



Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1994; Mostar 1994-96



Eastern Slavonia 1996-98



Kosovo from 1999



Conclusion



Host Territories-Self-Determination Units



Introduction



The Law on Self-Determination



Colonial, Mandated, and Trust Territories Where the UN Conducted Consultations



West Irian 1962-63



South West Africa/Namibia 1967 and 1989-90



Western Sahara From 1991



East Timor 1999-2002



Conclusion



Establishing the Policy Institution: Purposive Analysis



Introduction



How the Policy Institution Works



The First Purpose: Responding to a 'Sovereignty Problem'



Responding to concerns relating to a 'sovereignty problem'



Addressing the 'sovereignty problem' directly



Using ITA to respond to a 'sovereignty problem'



Ydit's 'internationalised territories' thesis revisited



Reinforcing the validity of locally-identified sovereignty



The Second Purpose: Responding to a 'Governance Problem'



The presence of governance



The quality of governance



Governance policy-territorial status



Governance policy-effectiveness, democracy, the rule of law, and free market economics



Governance policy-containment of migrants



Governance policy-exploitation of national resources



Overview of governance policies



Using ITA to respond to a 'governance problem'



The relationship between different 'governance problems'



Reactive and proactive uses of ITA in relation to 'governance problems'



The changing character of 'governance problems'



Two approaches to addressing 'governance problems'-palliative and remedial



Reinforcing the validity of local territorial administration



Establishing the Policy Institution



Conclusion



Implementing International Law and Policy



Introduction



Specific Role in Dispute Prevention and Settlement



General Role in Implementing Settlements and International Law and Policy



Implementation of settlements



Territorial status and self-determination outcomes



'State-building'



Exploitation of natural resources



Promoting International Peace and Security



Defining peace operations



The relationship between ITA projects and the promotion of peace and security



Using the 'peace' and 'post-conflict' labels



Comparing ITA with other Equivalent International Enforcement Modalities



Intrusiveness



Case study-human rights institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina



Conclusion



Colonialism and Trusteeship Redux? Imperial Connections, Historical Evolution, and Legitimation in the 'Post-Colonial' Era



Introduction



Analogous Institutions



Protection



Colonialism



The Mandate and Trusteeship systems



Representative bodies



Occupation



Commonalities



Analogous Policy Institutions



Territorial status outcomes and strategic advantage



Trusteeship, the civilizing mission, and other administrative policies



Family of policy institutions



From the Berlin Conference to the Allied Control Council in Berlin-Foreign Territorial Administration in the First Half of the 20th Century and the Internationalization of Trusteeship



The Post-War Self-Determination Entitlement and the Repudiation of Foreign Territorial Administration



Rejection of foreign territorial administration



Remaining role for foreign territorial administration-realizing self-determination



The Revival of Foreign Territorial Administration: The Use of ITA in the 'Post-Colonial' Context



From Lord Lugard to Lord Ashdown: Normative Disassociation from the Earlier Models



Critiques of colonialism, trusteeship, and occupation



Structures of legitimation



'Legitimate' authority



'Legitimate' policies



'Legitimate' administering actors



Temporary nature and the commitment to independence



Disassociation from the state-conducted models



Conclusion



Analysing International Territorial Administration



Introducing a Policy Institution



International territorial administration as an 'institution'



International territorial administration as a 'policy institution'



International territorial sovereignty?



Purposive analysis and the policy institution



Hidden projects and the proper framework for analysis



Crossing the boundaries-situating the policy institution within a broader context



Implementing international law and policy



Foreign territorial administration



Analysing the Policy Institution



Legal issues



Legitimacy


List of Sources


Index