1. Power After Peace -- pt.i. A Political Economy Perspective on Selected Statebuilding Practices -- 2. Statebuilding and the Limits of Constitutional Design -- 3. Elections and Post-conflict Political Development -- 4. Transition from War to Peace: Stratification, Inequality and Post-War Economic Reconstruction -- 5. Informal Actors and the Post-conflict Moment -- 6. Statebuilding and Corruption: A Political Economy Perspective -- 7. State-building and the Political Economy of the Extractive Industries in Post-Conflict States -- pt.II: Approaches to Statebuilding -- 8. The United Nations and International State-Building after the Cold War -- 9. The IFIs and Post-Conflict Political Economy -- 10. Regional Approaches to State-building I: the European Union -- 11. Regional Approaches to State-building II: The African Union and ECOWAS -- pt.III: Case Studies -- 12. Back to the Future: the Failure to Reform the Post-war Political Economy of Iraq -- 13. Building a State and 'State-building': East Timor and the UN, 1999-2012 -- 14. The Political Economy of State-building in Kosovo -- 15. From New Dawn to Quicksands: The Political Economy of State-building in Afghanistan -- 16. The Political Economy of State-building in Burundi -- 17. The Political Economy of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in Sudan -- 18. The Political Economy of Statebuilding in Haiti: Informal Resistance to Security-First State-building -- 19. Georgia and the Political Economy of State-building -- 20. How the EU and the US Stopped a War and Nobody Noticed: The Containment of the Macedonian Conflict and EU Soft Power