1. See, for example, F. Fukuyama, State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century (Ithaca, Cornell University Press 2004); G. Bächler, Conflict Transformation through State Reform (Berlin, Berghof Research Centre for Constructive Conflict Management 2004); H. Fischer and N. Quénivet, eds., Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Nation-and/or State-Building (Berlin, BWV 2005); C. Call and E. Cousens, Ending Wars and Building Peace, Working Paper, 12 March 2007; C. Call and V. Wyeth, eds., Building States to Build Peace (New York, IPI 2008).
2. The term was coined by G. Knaus and M. Cox, ‘The “Helsinki Moment” in Southeastern Europe’, 14 Journal of Democracy (2005) 39–53.
3. International Commission on the Balkans, The Balkans in Europe’s Future (Sofia, CLS 2005).
4. On the spoils of war, economic revitalisation and ‘Europeanisation’, suffice it to refer to M. Kaldor, V. Bojièić and I. Vejvoda, ‘Reconstruction in the Balkans: A Challenge for Europe?’, 2 EFA Rev. (1997) 329–350; V. Gligorov, M. Kaldor and L. Tsoukalis, Balkan Reconstruction and European Integration, WIIW Policy Paper (October 1999); and DG ECFIN’s annual Western Balkans in Transition reports in the Enlargement Papers series.
5. R. Paris, At War’s End: Building Peace after Civil Conflict (Cambridge, CUP 2004).