Introduction 1
1 The ‘state-building enterprise': Legal doctrine, progress narratives and managerial governance 15
2 Democratisation, state-building and politics as technology 38
3 International law, human rights and the transformative occupation of Iraq 64
4 Defining democracy in international institutions 90
5 Democracy and legitimation: Challenges in the reconstitution of political processes in Afghanistan 111
6 Impossible expectations? The UN Security Council's promotion of the rule of law after conflict 134
7 Legal pluralism and the challenge of building the rule of lawin post-conflict states: A case study of Timor-Leste 157
8 From paper to practice: The role of treaty ratification post-conflict 177
9 Selective universality? Human-rights accountability of the UN in post-conflict operations 198
10 ‘Security starts with the law': The role of international law in the protection of women's security post-conflict 218
11 Grappling in the Great Lakes: The challenges of international 244
justice in Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda 244
Conclusion: Hope and humility for weavers with international law 270
Select Bibliography 289
Index 315