Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Cover -- Series Page -- Half Title -- About the author -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Return to what? -- What we know so far -- Introducing the case -- The argument in brief -- Methods and data -- Outline of the book -- 1: Norms, intervention, and the making of orders -- Legitimate authority, the international, and the constitution of orders -- International organizations and the dissemination of legitimacy principles -- Intervention as transboundary formation: spaces of politics and power

2: Crafting an African anti-coup manual -- Early experiments: from anti-imperialism to 'the people' -- Writing an anti-coup manual -- The Charter project: contesting and expandingthe manual -- 'Zero tolerance': strengthening the manual, strengthening the AU -- Expansion and claims of the African anti-coup manual -- 3: What 'crise malgache'? -- 2009: whose 'crise malgache'? -- 4: The intervention scenario -- The four mouvances -- The international interveners -- The mediation team(s) -- The politics of unconstitutional changes of government -- 5: The logic of intervention

Reordering what? Transition as executive politics -- Reordering with whom, for whom? Faking inclusivity -- Reordering how? Between pressure and evasion -- 6: Reproducing old, legitimating new orders -- Reordering Madagascar -- Reordering the international -- 7: Politics and power of post-coup interventions -- Madagascar in the bigger picture -- Implications -- So, what to do? -- Notes -- References -- List of interviews -- Index

An in-depth analysis of international intervention in Madagascar following the 2009 coup, and what it means for African 'anti-coup' efforts.