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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (201 pages) :; illustrations
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Table of 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.