Dominik Zaum
Biographic Data
| ID | 4211270 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dominik Zaum |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dominik |
| FAMILY NAME | Zaum |
| SIGNATURE | ZAUM D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3148-555X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Legitimacy
This chapter examines the importance of legitimacy for international organizations (IOs), and their efforts to legitimate themselves vis-à-vis different audiences. It advances three main arguments. First, it argues that in most IOs the most important actors engaging in legitimation efforts are not the supranational bureaucracies, but member states. Second, legitimacy and legitimation serve a range of purposes for these states, beyond achieving gr…
Political Economy of Statebuilding
International Transitional Administrations and the Politics of Authority Building
This article critically examines authority-building practices of international transitional administrations (ITAs) engaged in statebuilding, and evaluates authority building as a framework for understanding the practices of statebuilding operations. It argues that war-torn states rarely lack actors claiming authority, but that these claims are often competing and mutually exclusive, and frequently not widely recognized. Building authority, theref…
Corruption and State-Building
The chapter examines the compex roles of corruption in state-buioding environments. The first section briefly outlines how statebuilding is conceptualized in this discussion. The second section examines the concept of corruption,and argues that the organization, rather than the scale of corruption, offers a better lens through which its impact can be analyzed. The third section examines the complex relationship between corruption and statebuildin…
Legitimating International Organizations
The legitimacy of international and regional organisations and their actions is frequently asserted and challenged by states and commentators alike. Their authorisations or conduct of military interventions, their structures of decision-making, and their involvement in what states deem to be domestic matters have all raised questions of legitimacy. As international organisations lack the coercive powers of states, legitimacy is also considered ce…
Beyond the “Liberal Peace
The article critically reviews the contributions to the understanding of contemporary peacebuilding practices of several recent contributions to the peacebuilding literature, including the 2011 World Development Report. It examines some of the conceptual problems with recent criticisms of the "liberal peace", and proposes that the concept of "liberal peace" should be abandonned as it lacks any analytical purchase
The United Nations
Jussi M. Hanhimaki, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 2008, 174 pp With its multiple organs, specialised agencies, and programmes, the United Nations often seems infuriatingly complex a
International Non-Governmental Organisations and Civil Wars
The article examines the role of international non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in civil wars and the consequences of their presence for the dynamics of these conflicts. It argues that although NGOs can affect the dynamics of civil wars, their influence only partly derives from their non-state character. More important for their influence is the financial resources that they can command, which to a large extent derive from their close associ…
The Norms and Politics of Exit
While the impact of norms on post-conflict statebuilding operations has been well-explored in the literature, the ways in which the same normative frameworks affect the exit practices of such operations has so far remained unaddressed. To fill this gap, this paper examines the impact of the liberal-democratic norms governing statebuilding operations on the timing and process of exit of post-conflict international transitional administrations. To …
Muddling Through in Kosovo
The United Nations Security Council and war
This text brings together leading scholars and practitioners to provide an analysis of the legal, historical, and political context in which the Security Council operates. They explore the different functions that the Council has acquired over the last 60 years, partly in response to the changing nature of war.
Introduction – Key Themes in Peacebuilding and Corruption
The Sovereignty Paradox
This book analyses the normative framework underlying the statebuilding activities of the international administrations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and East Timor. It argues that a particular understanding of sovereignty has shaped the efforts of these international administrations, and examines the influence of this conception on three aspects of statebuilding: institution-building, the behaviour of international institutions towards loca…
Sovereignty Paradox
The authority of international administrations in international society
This article analyses the way in which international administrations exercising governmental power in post-conflict territories justify their political authority in the absence of democratic legitimacy. Looking at the administrations in Bosnia, Kosovo, and East Timor, the article focuses on their establishment, their mandates, and their government practices and identifies five different sources of authority: consent, delegation, the maintenance o…
Economic reform and the transformation of the payment bureaux
Economic reform has been central to the international state-building efforts in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This essay discusses one of the key economic reforms pursued by the international community: the transformation of the payment bureaux. By analysing the initiation, drafting, and implementation of the reform, it identifies two different motivations behind the reform: the promotion of a free market economy, and the weakening of parallel structur…
The Paradox of Sovereignty
This article explores the normative framework within which international administrations engage in post-conflict statebuilding. By looking at the aims and justifications for the involvement of the international community in the reform of the civil service in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), it shows how this intervention is shaped by a liberal conception of state sovereignty that emphasizes legitimate state authority. The international administratio…
Beyond the “Liberal Peace
The article critically reviews the contributions to the understanding of contemporary peacebuilding practices of several recent contributions to the peacebuilding literature, including the 2011 World Development Report. It examines some of the conceptual problems with recent criticisms of the "liberal peace", and proposes that the concept of "liberal peace" should be abandonned as it lacks any analytical purchase
Introduction – Key Themes in Peacebuilding and Corruption
The authority of international administrations in international society
This article analyses the way in which international administrations exercising governmental power in post-conflict territories justify their political authority in the absence of democratic legitimacy. Looking at the administrations in Bosnia, Kosovo, and East Timor, the article focuses on their establishment, their mandates, and their government practices and identifies five different sources of authority: consent, delegation, the maintenance o…
The Norms and Politics of Exit
While the impact of norms on post-conflict statebuilding operations has been well-explored in the literature, the ways in which the same normative frameworks affect the exit practices of such operations has so far remained unaddressed. To fill this gap, this paper examines the impact of the liberal-democratic norms governing statebuilding operations on the timing and process of exit of post-conflict international transitional administrations. To …
The Paradox of Sovereignty
This article explores the normative framework within which international administrations engage in post-conflict statebuilding. By looking at the aims and justifications for the involvement of the international community in the reform of the civil service in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), it shows how this intervention is shaped by a liberal conception of state sovereignty that emphasizes legitimate state authority. The international administratio…
International Transitional Administrations and the Politics of Authority Building
This article critically examines authority-building practices of international transitional administrations (ITAs) engaged in statebuilding, and evaluates authority building as a framework for understanding the practices of statebuilding operations. It argues that war-torn states rarely lack actors claiming authority, but that these claims are often competing and mutually exclusive, and frequently not widely recognized. Building authority, theref…
Economic reform and the transformation of the payment bureaux
Economic reform has been central to the international state-building efforts in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This essay discusses one of the key economic reforms pursued by the international community: the transformation of the payment bureaux. By analysing the initiation, drafting, and implementation of the reform, it identifies two different motivations behind the reform: the promotion of a free market economy, and the weakening of parallel structur…
The Paradox of Sovereignty
This article explores the normative framework within which international administrations engage in post-conflict statebuilding. By looking at the aims and justifications for the involvement of the international community in the reform of the civil service in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), it shows how this intervention is shaped by a liberal conception of state sovereignty that emphasizes legitimate state authority. The international administratio…
Economic reform and the transformation of the payment bureaux
Economic reform has been central to the international state-building efforts in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This essay discusses one of the key economic reforms pursued by the international community: the transformation of the payment bureaux. By analysing the initiation, drafting, and implementation of the reform, it identifies two different motivations behind the reform: the promotion of a free market economy, and the weakening of parallel structur…
The authority of international administrations in international society
This article analyses the way in which international administrations exercising governmental power in post-conflict territories justify their political authority in the absence of democratic legitimacy. Looking at the administrations in Bosnia, Kosovo, and East Timor, the article focuses on their establishment, their mandates, and their government practices and identifies five different sources of authority: consent, delegation, the maintenance o…
The Sovereignty Paradox
This book analyses the normative framework underlying the statebuilding activities of the international administrations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and East Timor. It argues that a particular understanding of sovereignty has shaped the efforts of these international administrations, and examines the influence of this conception on three aspects of statebuilding: institution-building, the behaviour of international institutions towards loca…
Sovereignty Paradox
The United Nations Security Council and war
This text brings together leading scholars and practitioners to provide an analysis of the legal, historical, and political context in which the Security Council operates. They explore the different functions that the Council has acquired over the last 60 years, partly in response to the changing nature of war.
Introduction – Key Themes in Peacebuilding and Corruption
International Non-Governmental Organisations and Civil Wars
The article examines the role of international non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in civil wars and the consequences of their presence for the dynamics of these conflicts. It argues that although NGOs can affect the dynamics of civil wars, their influence only partly derives from their non-state character. More important for their influence is the financial resources that they can command, which to a large extent derive from their close associ…
The Norms and Politics of Exit
While the impact of norms on post-conflict statebuilding operations has been well-explored in the literature, the ways in which the same normative frameworks affect the exit practices of such operations has so far remained unaddressed. To fill this gap, this paper examines the impact of the liberal-democratic norms governing statebuilding operations on the timing and process of exit of post-conflict international transitional administrations. To …
Muddling Through in Kosovo
The United Nations
Jussi M. Hanhimaki, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 2008, 174 pp With its multiple organs, specialised agencies, and programmes, the United Nations often seems infuriatingly complex a
Beyond the “Liberal Peace
The article critically reviews the contributions to the understanding of contemporary peacebuilding practices of several recent contributions to the peacebuilding literature, including the 2011 World Development Report. It examines some of the conceptual problems with recent criticisms of the "liberal peace", and proposes that the concept of "liberal peace" should be abandonned as it lacks any analytical purchase
Legitimating International Organizations
The legitimacy of international and regional organisations and their actions is frequently asserted and challenged by states and commentators alike. Their authorisations or conduct of military interventions, their structures of decision-making, and their involvement in what states deem to be domestic matters have all raised questions of legitimacy. As international organisations lack the coercive powers of states, legitimacy is also considered ce…
Corruption and State-Building
The chapter examines the compex roles of corruption in state-buioding environments. The first section briefly outlines how statebuilding is conceptualized in this discussion. The second section examines the concept of corruption,and argues that the organization, rather than the scale of corruption, offers a better lens through which its impact can be analyzed. The third section examines the complex relationship between corruption and statebuildin…
Legitimacy
This chapter examines the importance of legitimacy for international organizations (IOs), and their efforts to legitimate themselves vis-à-vis different audiences. It advances three main arguments. First, it argues that in most IOs the most important actors engaging in legitimation efforts are not the supranational bureaucracies, but member states. Second, legitimacy and legitimation serve a range of purposes for these states, beyond achieving gr…
Political Economy of Statebuilding
International Transitional Administrations and the Politics of Authority Building
This article critically examines authority-building practices of international transitional administrations (ITAs) engaged in statebuilding, and evaluates authority building as a framework for understanding the practices of statebuilding operations. It argues that war-torn states rarely lack actors claiming authority, but that these claims are often competing and mutually exclusive, and frequently not widely recognized. Building authority, theref…
Law (16 works) · Political science (16 works) · Politics (15 works) · Public Administration (13 works) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Peacebuilding and International Security (9 works) · Public Administration (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · International Development and Aid (4 works)