This new handbook provides a combination of theoretical, thematic and empirical analyses of the statebuilding regime, written by leading international scholars. It will be an essential reference work for this emerging interdisciplinary field. "Chandler and Sisk's is not a how-to handbook; rather, it offers a particularly well-informed canvas of contemporary research and practice in the field of statebuilding. The editors' ambition is to make the handbook an 'essential reference material for the interdisciplinary field of specialization on statebuilding themes' (xxiii). This is precisely what they accomplish with this publication. The handbook will become a single-source reference for all those interested in contemporary statebuilding and world affairs: for the inexperienced, it offers an outstanding departure point to understand key themes from the perspective of experienced scholars and practitioners in the field; for the experienced, it is a handy source systematizing a broad, complex and vibrant field of multidisciplinary research and practice in contemporary world politics." -FERNANDO CAVALCANTE, University of Coimbra, Portugal