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The New Protectorates
Bellagio Conference, 6-10 February 2006
The Bellagio conference on International Protectorates and the Challenge of State-Building brought together a select number of key policymakers who possess deep understanding of the issues at stake and academics responsible for much of the high-quality research on international administration of occupied territories. The aim of the conference was threefold:
- First, to scrutinize the state of the art of the first wave of studies on the subject and the wealth of experience collected in what is by now a substantial range of international administrations.
- Second, to specifically address why international governance has fallen short of creating the sort of sustainable institutions, "well-adjusted" political actors and liberal politics it aspires to. This encompassed both a critical look at notable policy failures of international administrations and an analysis of the deeper structural and political limitations of the new protectorates.
- Third, to highlight gaps, both empirical and conceptual, in our grasp of the politics of exogenous state building, and suggest tracks for a future research agenda.
Conference Program
| Monday 6 February | |
| 19.00 | Drinks and Welcome Address (James Mayall) |
| 19.30 | Dinner |
| Tuesday 7 February | |
| 09.00 | Old and New Protectorates: Framing the Debate Chair: James Mayall |
| Trusteeship and Empire (William Bain) | |
| The new protectorates from a non-western perspective (Aswini Ray) | |
| 11.20 | New protectorates and Africa: a no-go area? Chair: Ricardo Soares de Oliveira |
| Decertifying Failed States (Jeffrey Herbst) | |
| From International Receivership to Trusteeship? Challenges of re-floating Failed States in West Africa (Amadu Sesay) | |
| Reluctant Imperialism: the International Community in Sierra Leone and Liberia (Christopher Clapham) | |
| 15.00 | The evolution of the office of the High Representative from 1995 to the present (John Drewienkiewicz) |
| 17.00 | The EU as State Builder: Lessons from the Balkans Chair: William Bain |
| Prelude to EU state-building in the Balkans: Or Why it Didn't Happen (Spyros Economides) | |
| The EU and the International Administration of Balkan Territories (Richard Caplan) | |
| Wednesday 8 February | |
| 09.00 | Coordination of Disparate Actors Chair: Ricardo Soares de Oliveira |
| Donor-Government Relations (Clare Lockhart) | |
| Civil-Military Relations (John Drewienkiewicz) | |
| A Perspective from the Field (Ayesha Khan) | |
| 11.00 | The UN as State Builder Chair: Richard Caplan |
| Challenges of Strategic Planning and Organizational Learning (Thorsten Benner) | |
| Ownership in Theory and Practice – Transfer of Authority in UN Peace Operations (Simon Chesterman) | |
| Free Afternoon | |
| Thursday 9 February | |
| 9.00 | The role of the hegemon in Imperial and Post Imperial Orders: some British and American comparisons Chair: Thorsten Benner |
| American Exceptionalism and US State-Building (Stefan Halper) | |
| Hegemonic dilemmas in Nation and State-Building (James Mayall) | |
| 11.15 | The Political Economy of Protectorates Chair: Ricardo Soares De Oliveira |
| Development Challenges under International Protectorates: The Case of Privatization in Kosovo (Dominik Zaum) | |
| 14.30 | Protectorates and the Law Chair: Christopher Clapham |
| Judicial Dealing with Past Crimes (Gary Bass) | |
| The Domestic Legal Framework (William Burke-White) | |
| 16.30 | New Protectorates: Pushing the Boundaries of Knowledge and Practice Plenary Session, chaired by James Mayall |
| Friday 10 February | |
| Departure |