In praise of folly: International administration and the corruption of humanity

International Affairs

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 525-538

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EID: 33646738126     PISSN: 00205850     EISSN: 14682346     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2346.2006.00549.x     Document Type: Review

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1. By 'international administration' I am referring to internationally led engagements in domestic governance that are commonly called interim, transitional and post-conflict administration, trusteeship and neo-trusteeship, and state-building. For a general overview see Global Governance, special issue on the politics of international administration, 10: 1, 2004.
2. See Michael Oakeshott, 'Talking polities', in Rationalism in politics and other essays (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1991), pp. 446-54.
3. See e.g. Richard Caplan, International governance of war-torn territories: rule and reconstruction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 12, 230-50;
4. Roland Paris, At u'ar's end: building peace after civil conflict (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), p. 6, pt III;
5. James Fearon and David Laitin, 'Neotrusteeship and the problem of weak states', International Security 28: 4, 2004, p. 7.
6. See Charles Krauthammer, 'The unipolar moment revisited', National Interest, Winter 2002, pp. 5-17;
7. David Harland, 'Legitimacy and effectiveness in international administration', Global Governance 10: 1, 2004, pp. 15-19;
8. Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, The responsibility to protect (Ottawa: International Development Research Center, 2001).
9. Frederic William Maitland once expressed this sentiment in a discussion of the legal personality of the state. See 'Moral personality and legal personality', in Maitland; state, trust and corporation, ed. David Runciman and Magnus Ryan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), p. 71.
10. Paris, At war's end, p. 206.
11. Fearon and Laitin, 'Neotrusteeship and the problem of weak states', p, 28.
12. Caplan, International governance of war-torn territories, pp. 251-6.
13. On the distinction between voice and speech, see Aristotle, The politics, trans. T. A. Sinclair (London: Penguin, 1993), 1. ii.
14. Ombudsperson Institution in Kosovo, Second annual report, 2001-2002, 10 July 2002, p. 1.
15. R. G. Collingwood, The new Leviathan (Oxford: Clarendon, 1942), p. 133. On contract generally,
16. see W. W. Buckland and Arnold McNair, Roman law and common law, rev. F. H. Lawson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1952), ch. 8;
17. Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, ed. Michael Oakeshott (Oxford: Blackwell, 1949), ch. 14.
18. Collingwood, The new Leviathan, p. 133.
19. For an excellent discussion of contractual relations and the type of society they imply, see Christopher Berry, Social theory of the Scottish Enlightenment (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997), ch. 6.
20. Although the idea of trust in international relations has taken the form of a non-consensual relationship, John Locke makes use of a consensual notion of trust for life in political society. See John Locke, 'Second treatise of government', in Two treatises of government, ed. Peter Laslett (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), chs 15, 19.
21. Ernest Barker, Social contract: essays by Locke, Hume, and Rousseau (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971), pp. xxi-xxiv.
22. Frederic William Maitland, 'The unincorporated body", in Maitland; state, trust and corporation, pp. 57-8;
23. William Bain, 'In pursuit of paradise: trusteeship in contemporary international society', Tidsskriftet Politik 7: 2, 2004, p. 11.
24. See e.g. Ombudsperson Institution in Kosovo, Fourth annual report, 2003-2004, 12 July 2004, p. 7.
25. Report of the Secretary General, No exit without strategy: Security Council decision-making and the closure or transition of United Nations peacekeeping operations, 20 April 2001, S/2001/394., paras 10-12;
26. William Bain, Between anarchy and society: trusteeship and the obligations of power (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), pp. 48-50, 59-62.
27. For an interesting discussion of these issues, see Jarat Chopra and Tanja Hohe, 'Participatory intervention', Global Governance 10: 3, 2004, pp. 289-305.
28. Oakeshott, 'Talking politics', pp. 449-50.
29. Caplan, International governance of war-torn territories, pp. 14-16.
30. Hobbes, Leviathan, ch. 18.
31. On the character of a mode of association, see Michael Oakeshott, 'The rule of law', in On history and other essays (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1999), pp. 129-30.
32. 'General framework agreement for peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, annex 6', US Department of State Dispatch, 7/supplement 1 (1996);
33. United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244, 10 June 1999, S/RES/1244 (1999), p. 4;
34. and United Nations Security Council Resolution 1272, 25 October 1999, S/RES/1272 (1999), p. 3.
35. See Maitland, 'The unincorporated body', p. 54.
36. See Ombudsperson Institution in Kosovo, Fourth annual report, 2003-2004, p. 18;
37. UNMIK, 'Regulation no. 1999/1, on the authority of the interim administration in Kosovo, 25 July 1999', UNMIK/REG/1999/1, sec. 1.
38. See e.g. Gerald Knaus and Felix Martin, 'Travails of the European Raj', Journal of Democracy 14: 3, 2003, pp. 60-74;
39. David Chandler, 'Bosnia's new colonial governor', Guardian, 9 July 2002;
40. David Chandler, Bosnia: faking democracy after Dayton, 2nd edn (London: Pluto, 2000).
41. Paddy Ashdown, 'Decision removing Dragan Covic from his position as a member of the presidency of BiH', Office of the High Representative, 29 March 2005.
42. H. L. A. Hart, 'Are there any natural rights?', Philosophical Riview 64: 2, 1955, pp. 183-4.
43. The following argument is derived principally from Samuel LaSelva, 'Selling oneself into slavery: Mill and paternalism', Political Studies 35: 2, 1987, pp. 216-22,
44. and H. L. A. Hart, The concept of law (Oxford: Clarendon, 1961), p. 146.
45. 'Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948', in Basic Documents of Human Rights, 3rd edn, ed. Ian Brownlie (Oxford: Clarendon, 1992), art. 1.
46. LaSelva, 'Selling oneself into slavery', pp. 212-13. On the subject of harm in international relations,
47. see Andrew Linklater, 'Citizenship, humanity, and cosmopolitan harm conventions', International Political Science Review 22: 3, 2001, pp. 261-77.
48. Michael Oakeshott, 'The Tower of Babel', in Rationalism in politics and other essays, pp. 478-9.
49. Edmund Burke, 'Reflections on the revolution in France', in Select Works of Edmund Burke, vol. 2 (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1999), p. 171.
50. Oakeshott, 'The Tower of Babel", pp. 476-80.
51. See J. R. Lucas, 'Freedom and prediction', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 41, 1967, p. 163.
52. Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, trans. Rex Warner (London: Penguin, 1972), III: 82.
53. Oakeshott, 'The Tower of Babel', p. 482.