"Instead of embedding international assistance in a programme of gener-ating legitimacy, which would have involved an effort to sideline the wartime elites in the various communities and building coalitions across the ethnic constituencies, internationals focused on the delivery of technical aid in specific sectors whose interconnectedness was ill-understood. Indeed, Bosnia highlighted the fact that the international managers of state-building tend to have surprisingly one-dimensional views of the field in which they work. A modern Prince might be needed, a manual to help prospective administrators appreciate the political dimension of their work."