Exit strategies and state building / Richard Caplan -- Exit and colonial administrations / John Darwin -- Senegal / Anthony Chafer -- Indonesia / Hendrik Spruyt -- Exit and peace support operations / William J. Durch -- Sierra Leone / A. Sarjoh Bah -- Haiti / Johanna Mendelson Forman -- Exit and international administrations / Dominik Zaum -- Kosovo / Ben Crampton -- East Timor / Anthony Goldstone -- Exit and military occupations / Gregory H. Fox -- Gaza / Joel Peters -- Iraq / Toby Dodge -- Competing normative visions of exit / Ralph Wilde -- The political economy of exit / Michael Pugh -- After exit: the UN peacebuilding architecture / Richard Ponzio -- Policy implications / Richard Caplan.