The Oxford Handbook of Governance and Limited Statehood

Unpacking the major debates, this Oxford Handbook brings together leading authors of the field to provide a state-of-the-art guide to governance in areas of limited statehood where state authorities lack the capacity to implement and enforce central decision and/or to uphold the monopoly over the means of violence. While areas of limited statehood can be found everywhere - not just in the global South -, they are neither ungoverned nor ungovernable. Rather, a variety of actors maintain public order and safety, as well as provide public goods and services. While external state 'governors' and their interventions in the global South have received special scholarly attention, various non-state actors - from NGOs to business to violent armed groups - have emerged that also engage in governance. This evidence holds for diverse policy fields and historical cases.

The Handbook gives a comprehensive picture of the varieties of governance in areas of limited statehood from interdisciplinary perspectives including political science, geography, history, law, and economics. 29 chapters review the academic scholarship and explore the conditions of effective and legitimate governance in areas of limited statehood, as well as its implications for world politics in the twenty-first century. The authors examine theoretical and methodological approaches as well as historical and spatial dimensions of areas of limited statehood, and deal with the various governors as well as their modes of governance. They cover a variety of issue areas and explore the implications for the international legal order, for normative theory, and for policies toward areas of limited statehood.

Thomas Risse, Professor of International Politics, Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science, Freie Universitat Berlin,Tanja A. Borzel, Professor of European Integration, Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science, Freie Universitat Berlin,Anke Draude, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 700 'Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood', Freie Universitat Berlin

Thomas Risse is professor of International Relations at Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany. He is the co-director of the Research College 'The Transformative Power of Europe' and has been coordinator of the Research Center 'Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood', both funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). His publications include Domestic Politics and Norm Diffusion in International Relations (Routledge, 2016), A Community of Europeans? (Cornell University Press, 2010), and The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Regionalism (with Tanja A. Borzel, OUP, 2016).

Tanja A. Borzel is professor of Political Science and European Integration at Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany, and is the director of the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence 'Europe and its Citizens'. She coordinates the Research College 'The Transformative Power of Europe' together with Thomas Risse, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Her current research focuses on policies and governance, comparative regionalism, and compliance in the European Union. Her publications include Environmental Leaders and Laggards in Europe (Ashgate, 2003), and The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Regionalism (with Thomas Risse, OUP, 2016).

Anke Draude is a postdoctoral research associate at the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 700 'Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood'. Her research focuses on recent interdisciplinary developments in the study of global norm diffusion and translation, governance interventions, and local agency.

INTRODUCTION
1. Conceptual Clarifications and Major Contributions of the Handbook, Tanja A. Borzel, Thomas Risse, and Anke Draude
PART I: Theory and Methodology
2. Theories of Development and Areas of Limited Statehood, Stephen D. Krasner
3. A Historical Sociological Perspective on Statehood, Klaus Schlichte
4. Anthropological Perspectives on the Limits of the State, Andrew Brandel and Shalini Randeria
5. Critical Approaches, Laura Sjoberg and J. Samuel Barkin
6. Measuring Governance and Limited Statehood, Eric Stollenwerk
PART II: Time and Space
7. Histories of Governance, Stefan Esders, Lasse Holck, and Stefan Rinke
8. A Global History of Governance, Madeleine Herren
9. Geographies of Limited Statehood, Benedikt Korf, Timothy Raeymakers, Conrad Schetter, and Michael J. Watts
PART III: Governors
10. External State Actors, Markus Lederer
11. INGOs and Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships, Marianne Beisheim, Annekathrin Ellersiek, and Jasmin Lorch
12. 'Traditional' Authorities, Till Forster and Lucy Koechlin
13. Business, Tanja A. Borzel and Nicole Deitelhoff
14. Violent and Criminal Non-State Actors, Benedetta Berti
PART IV: Modes of Governance
15. Coercion and Trusteeship, David A. Lake
16. Hierarchical and Non-Hierarchical Coordination, Thomas Risse
17. Brokerage, Intermediation, Translation, Jana Honke and Markus-Michael Muller
18. Social Trust, Anke Draude, Lasse Holck, and Dietlind Stolle
PART V: Issue Areas
19. Security, Ursula Schroder
20. Foreign Aid, Axel Dreher, Valentin Lang, and Sebastian Ziaja
21. Human Rights, Rule of Law, and Democracy, Tobias Berger and Milli Lake
22. Health, Anna Holzscheiter
23. Food Security, Andrea Liese
24. Education, Anne Ellersiek
25. Environmental and Natural Resources, Ralph Hamann, Jana Honke, and Tim O'Riordan
26. Migration, Sandra Lavenex
PART VI: Implications
27. International Legal Order, Heike Krieger
28. Normative Political Theory, Daniel Jacob, Bernd Ladwig, and Cord Schmelzle
29. Policy, Lars Brozus, Christian Jetzlsperger, and Gregor Walter-Drop