Nation-Building as Necessary Effort in Fragile States
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, Rene Grotenhuis shows in this book...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press,, 2016. Baltimore, Md. : : Project MUSE,, 2020 ©2016. |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | OAPEN Library.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (201 pages) :; illustrations |
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| Summary: | 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, Rene 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. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789048532124 ‡q (electronic bk.) 9048532124 ‡q (electronic bk.) 9789462982192 9462982198 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |