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New Agendas in Statebuilding : Hybridity, Contingency and History.

This volume connects the study of statebuilding to broader aspects of social theory and the historical study of the state, bringing forth new questions and starting-points, both academically and practically, for the field. Building states has become a highly prioritized issue in international politi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Egnell, Robert
Otros Autores: Haldén, Peter
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013.
Colección:Routledge studies in intervention and statebuilding.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; New Agendas in Statebuilding; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: the need for new agendas in statebuilding; PART I New theoretical approaches to statebuilding; 2 Hybrid statebuilding; 3 Against endogeneity: the systemic preconditions of state formation; 4 Somalia: state 'failure' and the emergence of hybrid political orders; 5 State theory and statebuilding: towards a Gramscian analysis; PART II Revisiting historical cases of statebuilding; 6 The improbable European state: its ideals observed with social systems theory.
  • 7 The local adaptation of centralizing politics: hybrid statebuilding in sixteenth-century Sweden8 Changing perceptions of the Western form of government in Islamic thought; PART III Strategic imperatives in statebuilding; 9 Exploring the strategic logic of withdrawal from statebuilding interventions; 10 In our image: statebuilding orthodoxy and the Afghan National Army; 11 Winning legitimacy?: counterinsurgency as the military approach to statebuilding; Conclusion; 12 Towards new agendas: implications for the theory and practice of statebuilding; Bibliography; Index.