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Cursus: CS3V14004
CS3V14004
Politics of Reconstruction and Intervention
Cursus informatie
CursuscodeCS3V14004
Studiepunten (EC)7,5
Cursusdoelen
- Knowledege of different approaches to analyse the politics of reconstruction.
- Capacity to apply concepts to selected case studies.
- Capacity to analyse a selected case study using one or several of the approaches discussed in the course 
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Please note! For this minor and its courses a restricted number of places are available.
Enrollment takes place through a Selection Committee, which means you can only register for the course and the minor within the first four days of the course registration period (Monday – Thursday 16.00 hrs).  The Selection Committee decides whether or not you can enroll. More information about registration can be found here


This course deals with the efforts to (re)build political arrangements and institutions in periods after violent conflict (the ‘post-war’) both at a national and local level. It looks at the efforts to (re)construct state institutions and to build democratic regimes, and explores the inherently political and conflictive nature of these processes. Through case studies from the past two decades (like DRC, Afghanistan, and Guatemala) students learn to critically analyse processes of international intervention and political change.
The three main fields of analysis are (a) assumptions, strategies and roles of international actors, (b) their interactions with local elites, and (c) the characteristics of national and local political contexts in which these actors operate. Students will, among other activities, screen documentaries (e.g. Paul Bremer memoires of his time in Iraq) and analyse policy documents (e.g. UN declarations). The course uses literature on political development, (international) policy analysis, and on the growing body of literature critically assessing efforts by international and local actors of social engineering after war.   
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