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Showing 1 to 20 of 127 for “"state building"”.
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Migrant sarifa settlements and state-Building in Iraq
… the negative dialectical relationship between state-building and sarifa (reed) and kukh (mud) dwellings built by rural migrants in Baghdad. Rural migrants served as the paradigmatic developmental subjects of the Iraqi state, providing a supply of devalued labor for the army, civil service, …
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Institutions by imposition : colonial lessons for contemporary state-building
What explains variation in institution-building under foreign occupations? Why do some state-building missions produce effective and durable state institutions, while others leave a legacy of weak or dysfunctional ones? I explored these questions through a comparative study of the Japanese …
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U.S. nation-state building operations in Afghanistan: A case study
… attempted by the U.S. in order to stabilize the state. This thesis was designed to test the efficacy of U.S. nation-state building operations in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. This study analyzes the following: (1) the causes for the nation-state-building operations in Afghanistan; (2) the …
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Insurgents, Rebel Governance and State-building in sub-Saharan Africa
… about how rebel governance influences long-term state reconstruction after conflict. The main objective of this research is to address this gap. The research also explores governance activities of rebel groups within two main periods: during conflict, and when groups transitioned to rulers, with …
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Legitimacy, state-building, and civilian targeting in separatist civil wars
… Since the end of the Cold War, the number of new states in the international system has increased consistently. Many of these have risen from the ashes of states that have collapsed under the weight of their own domestic political and economic institutions as well as widespread popular support for …
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State-building and the politics of food in Japan and China
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1981.
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Fixing the Failed: An Investigation of Terrorist Organizations and State Building Capabilities
… the role of terrorist organizations in failed states. In particular, their ability to perform positive state-building activities that result in stability is investigated. Both terrorism and state failure present unique and serious threats to international security. However, there is very little …
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Towards an Inclusive Multinational Society in Myanmar : Ethnic Perceptions and State Building
… with the military’s vision of a centralised state and a national identity based on the Bamar majority group. Consequently, civil war has been raging for more than 70 years, and discrimination of ethnic groups has been gradually institutionalised. Thus, in order to support peace, one of the …
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Exploring the Impact of Neighborhood on State-Building in sub-Saharan Africa
Why is state-building more advanced in some sub-Saharan African countries than in others? And, over time, what accounts for the steady gains, steady declines, or gains followed by declines (or vice-versa) observed in the state-building trajectories of Africa's states? This dissertation endeavors to …
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Quasi-Armies: Obstacles to, or Vehicle for, State-building in Central Africa
… is the military as a constitutive component of state institutions in the Central African sub region. Its aim is to identify whether and to what extent the military has been and can be instrumental to the process of state-building and state formation in the region, and whether and under which …
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State building, capitalism, and development: state-run industrial enterprises in Fengtian, 1920-1931.
… industrial enterprises. The Chinese regional state in the Northeast (known as the Fengtian Clique, 1916-1931) most urgently wanted to develop a modern economy, because it was the only viable way to generate wealth and strengthen the state in the long run. Due to the lack of a full-fledged …
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Nationalism, Democracy, and State Building Among the Young Ireland Diasporic Generation, 1842-72
… by Young Irelanders in processes of nation-building and state-building in Australia, Canada, and the United States. It examines the formation of this group as a ‘generation’, and how they came to understand state-building to be central to the process of nation-building in the aftermath of …
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Disciples of the state : secularization and state building in the former Ottoman World
Disciples of the State seeks to explain why some former Ottoman states succeeded in effectively secularizing schooling and law and regulating religion upon independence - thereby consolidating state power- whereas others did not. The bulk of the project centers on a detailed investigation of three …
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The limits of state building : the politics of war and the ideology of peace
When can the international community build strong state institutions - such as security forces or electoral institutions - in post-conflict societies? An influential technical perspective argues that authority, resources, and expertise enable the international community to build its preferred …
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The politics of drugs and conflict: the challenges of insurgency and state-building in Afghanistan
… illicit drug production and trade weaken the state. The research question I have set out for this project is: “what is the impact of illicit drugs on conflict and how does access to drugs affect the strength and ideology of insurgent groups and hampers state-building?” Although Afghanistan is …
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From the Ashes of History: Trauma, National Identity and State-Building in India and Israel
… two case studies of post-independence developing states that demonstrate this theorization’s utility in analysis. First, I argue that, in post-independence India, economic nationalist discourse interpreted the diverse suffering imperialism generated as a collective trauma. This trauma’s narration …
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Post-1999 state-building in East Timor : local reception of state institutions and cultures of governance
… examines the local reception of international state-building in post-1999 East Timor. Contemporary literature on state-building and peace-building has largely concentrated on the structure of state institutions and activities by international actors and local elites. Drawing upon various …
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Post-1999 state-building in East Timor : local reception of state institutions and cultures of governance
… examines the local reception of international state-building in post-1999 East Timor. Contemporary literature on state-building and peace-building has largely concentrated on the structure of state institutions and activities by international actors and local elites. Drawing upon various …
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Legislating Citizenship in the United States: The Impact of State Building on Woman Sufferage Legislation, 1848-1918
<p>This is a state-level analysis of the impact of state building on woman suffrage legislation in the United States. This study examines all states in which state legislatures were conferred the power to submit a constitutional amendment to the electorate for approval. I use a sequential …
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