ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the post-conflict state-building from the perspective of international law. It focuses on the fourth set of literature, and aims to identify what are the key principles of international law to regulate state-building. In legal scholarship there is an ongoing discussion regarding the law applied and applicable to state-building. The chapter explores the way in which international law relates to state failure. It explores an overarching legal framework to approach state failure and the regulation of post-conflict reconstruction. The chapter describes a conceptualisation of the established phenomenon of post-conflict state-building from the perspective of international law. Engaging with literature on so-called failed states, the chapter submitted that state-building, like state failure, from the perspective of international law must be operated within the framework of the law which regulates the friendly relations and co-operation between states.
