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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"statebuilding"”.
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Violence and American Statebuilding, 1860-1895
Theorists of the American state have neglected how private forms of violence—frontier marauders, corporate militias, and lynching communities—have established and maintained US government power at the local, state, and national level. This dissertation’s three case studies correct that tendency. …
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Federalism & post-conflict statebuilding: The case of Somalia
… as an integral component in post-conflict statebuilding processes is becoming increasingly common (e.g. Iraq, Yemen & Sri Lanka). The current academic literature, however, is divided between those that argue that federalism in such fragile environments will increase the likelihood of …
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Unfaithful Allies: Local Resistance and the Failure of Statebuilding
… Allies: Local resistance and the failure of statebuilding in the Western Balkans</strong></p> <p>Adviser: Professor Susan Woodward</p> <p>International efforts to build strong and legitimate states in developing societies often present a paradox. In many instances they are undermined by the …
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The Rubik’s Cube of democratic development a normative model of statebuilding
… that each model and theory on state failure and statebuilding has useful elements which were incorporated in the alternative model proposed in the dissertation. Consequently, the real added value of the dissertation was the creation of the new theoretic schema which reorganized the exiting …
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Toward Context-Sensitive Statebuilding for Development: State-Local Complementarity in Rural Guatemala
<p>Developing countries emerging from conflict often feature enduring, destitute poverty amid often fast-growing economies at the national level. This dissertation explores a critical question: What accounts for variation in human development levels across similar communities in conflict-affected …
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Statebuilding versus state formation: the political economy of transition in Iraq and Libya
… exemplary of a decline in the expectations that statebuilding fervour can contribute to the full-fledged transformation of societies intervened upon. From the intervention in Iraq under the banner of “armed liberalism” to the “post-interventionist” approach that guided the intervention in Libya, …
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New states challenged: education, peacebuilding and statebuilding in post-conflict Kosovo and East Timor
… to the role of education in peacebuilding and statebuilding. Above all, little research has been conducted into how externally promoted efforts at rebuilding education systems may affect (or fail to affect) the consolidation of peace. This study focuses on the ways in which a variety of …
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Defining, Securing and Building a Just Peace : The EU and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
… alive through its support for the Palestinian statebuilding process.
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Nationalism, Identity, and Rhetoric in Bosnia-Herzegovina: A Rhetorical Analysis of Presidential Speeches, 2004–2012
<p>Ethnic divisions undermine statebuilding efforts in Bosnia-Herzegovina almost twenty years after the end of a war among the three main ethnic groups in the country. The political elites influence on how nationalism and identity is experienced in Bosnia-Herzegovina and offer reflections on how …
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Ghana: From fragility to resilience? Understanding the formation of a new political settlement from a critical political economy perspective
… resilient state, this thesis contributes to the statebuilding debate by analysing the social change that occurred. Grounded in a critical theory approach the thesis applies a political settlement analysis to explore how power is distributed and changed over time between contending social groups; …
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Embracing difference and the deferral of self-government: a critical analysis of the framing and practice of contemporary peace building
… values of post-war societies. The projects of statebuilding in Kosovo and, to a lesser extent, in Bosnia are examined to illustrate the shift. By capturing this shift, I seek to argue that contemporary practitioners of peace are sharing the sensibility of the theoretical critics of liberalism. …
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The Scientific-Military State, Science and the Making of American Government, 1776-1855
… and states’ rights. Drawing on French statebuilding theories, these statemakers grasped that science constituted an innovative governing technique, one which promised to offset the need for large standing armies, sprawling bureaucracies, and heavy taxes. It was a force-multiplier of …
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Democracy promotion in a post-political world
… and resurfacing in conflict management, statebuilding and climate change policy discourses. In its methodological approach this study draws on critical realism and adopts a genealogical ethos for ordering and interpreting the textual and programmatic material. The trajectory and …
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Striving for security: State responses to violence under the FMLN government in El Salvador 2009-2014
… the literature about Security Sector Reform and statebuilding assumes that it is possible to provide security to all citizens of a state by building democratic state security institutions. However, this is only possible if the state is the predominant force of controlling violence. Research …
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The Wartime Origins of Postwar Democratization: Civil War, Rebel Governance, and Political Regimes
… where rebel groups engage in extensive wartime "statebuilding," they create formal and informal institutions of governance which they can carry over into postwar politics should they prevail in the war. Because institutions are sticky, how they govern civilians in times of war can affect how they …
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Building Coercive Capacity: Three Essays
<p>This thesis is comprised of three chapters on different challenges state-builders face when creating an effective state apparatus. When principals (such as authoritarian leaders or elected representatives) set up security organs, they must make officials in the security services overcome …
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Becoming Capable: Empowerment, Improvement, and New Standards of Good Governance in the UN's Capacity Building Agenda
This dissertation analyzes how the United Nations (UN) constructs capacity across its development and environmental discourses, and how these constructions inform its political rationality. I also examine how this construction of capacity is engaged and reshaped across several of the UN's core …
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The Prospects of Institutional Transfer: A Within-Case Study of NATO Advisor Influence Across the Afghan Security Ministries and National Security Forces, 2009-2012
<p>This dissertation is an in-depth case study of NATO advisors and their perceived influence in Afghanistan (2009-2012). It explores the two-part question, how do foreign security actors (ministerial advisors and security force trainers, advisors, and commanders) attempt to influence their …
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Implementace Daytonské smlouvy pod dohledem EUFOR Althea v letech 2004 - 2010: cesta Bosny a Hercegoviny k demokracii?
Práce zkoumá úspěšnost mise Evropské unie Althea a Vysokého představitele v demokratizačním a stabilizačním procesu v Bosně a Hercegovině (BiH). Zkoumá nejdůležitější části Daytonské mírové smlouvy (DPA) - v první ze dvou kapitol Ústavu BiH, ve druhé ostatní faktory a roli EU. DPA rozdělila BiH do …