Nation-building as necessary effort in fragile states / René Grotenhuis
Material Type | E-Book |
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Publisher | Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press |
Year | 2016 |
Language | English |
Size | 1 online resource (201 pages) |
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Contents | Struggling in the world of nation-states Nation and state Fragility: a donor's concept but not far from reality Nation-building: sovereignty and citizenship Nation-building and state-building and the challenge of fragility Peacemaking as the preliminary step towards nation-building and state-building The Scylla and Charybdis of nation-building Nation-building: identity and identification, process and content National identity: a model and its content A program for nation-building in fragile states Epilogue: the challenges of fragility and the beginning of an answer |
Notes | Policies intended to bring stability to fragile states tend to focus almost exclusively on building institutions and systems to get governance right. Simply building the state is often seen as sufficient for making it stable and legitimate. But policies like these, René Grotenhuis shows in this book, ignore the question of what makes people belong to a nation-state, arguing that issues of identity, culture, and religion are crucial to creating the sense of belonging and social cohesion that a stable nation-state requires Open Access English Includes bibliographical references and index Print version record |
Authors | *Grotenhuis, René, |
Subjects | LCSH:Electronic books BSH:Electronic books FREE:(layered) identity FREE:nation-building FREE:fragile states LCSH:Nation-building LCSH:Nation-state FREE:Politics and government FREE:Society and social sciences Society and social sciences BISACSH:POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General All Subject Search BISACSH:POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International All Subject Search BISACSH:POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General All Subject Search FREE:Nation-building FREE:Nation-state FREE:Nationenbildung FREE:Friedenskonsolidierung |
Classification | DC23:327.1 |
ID | ED00001371 |
ISBN | 9789048532124 |
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