Notes
1. See, for example, Peake, ‘Partnerships and International Policing’ and Dinnen and Peake, ‘More Than Just Policing’.
2. This is not a new phenomenon. See, for example, Huang and Harris, ‘The Nuts and Bolts'.
3. The term ‘wicked problems’ – now used frequently in the literature on complexity – was first coined by Rittel and Webber in ‘Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning'.
4. Tom Bamforth, author of Deep Field, an engaging memoir of everyday life as a humanitarian worker, has described this collection of books and memoirs as ‘new travel writing’. Although I did not know it at the time, I myself have contributed to this genre by writing a memoir of life in Timor-Leste. Peake, Beloved Land.
5. Doemeland and Trevino, Which World Bank Reports?
6. Ramalingam's book is the first academic book I know of that includes a collection of wry world-weary cartoons.
7. Orwell, ‘Why I Write'.www.orwell.ru
8. Pouligny, Peace Operations; Sending, ‘The International Civil Servant'.
9. Ferguson, The Anti-Politics Machine; Mosse, Cultivating Development .
10. Autesserre, The Trouble with the Congo.
11. Peake, Beloved Land, 192.
12. Scambary, ‘When the Personal Is Political'.
13. Ibid., 2.
14. Full disclosure: I was one of Scambary's doctoral supervisors.
15. Scambary, ‘When the Personal Is Political’, 7.
16. De Coning, ‘Implications of Complexity’.
17. Wilson and De Sousa C. Belo, ‘The UNPOL to PNTL “Handover”'.
18. Ramo, The Age of the Unthinkable, 39–40, quoted in Ramalingam, 235.
19. This section builds on an argument originally developed in Dinnen and Peake, ‘Experimentation and Innovation.
20. Scott, Seeing Like a State.
21. Smith, ‘China in the Pacific'.
22. Personal communication, 11 July 2015.