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Introduction: Nation-building and the failure of institutional memory / Francis Fukuyama -- From consensus to crisis : the postwar career of nation-building in U.S. foreign relations / David Ekbladh -- Nation-building in the heyday of the classic development ideology : Ford Foundation experience in the 1950s and 1960s / Francis X. Sutton -- Building nations : the American experience / Minxin Pei, Samia Amin, and Seth Garz -- Nation-building : lessons learned and unlearned / Michèle A. Flournoy -- Sovereignty and legitimacy in Afghan nation-building / S. Frederick Starr -- Rebuilding Afghanistan : impediments, lessons, and prospects / Marvin G. Weinbaum -- The lessons of nation-building in Afghanistan / Larry P. Goodson -- What went wrong and right in Iraq / Larry Diamond -- Striking out in Baghdad : how postconflict reconstruction went awry / Johanna Mendelson Forman -- Learning the lessons of Iraq / James Dobbins -- Guidelines for future nation-builders / Francis Fukuyama.

After civil wars end, what can sustain peace in the long-term? In particular, how can outsiders facilitate durable conflict-managing institutions through statebuilding - a process that historically has been the outcome of bloody struggles to establish the state's authority over warlords, traditional authorities, and lawless territories?In this book, Timothy Sisk explores international efforts to help the world's most fragile post-civil war countries today build viable states that can provi

This book revisits key debates about state formation and the role of state policies in shaping state-society relations in Africa. It provides a systematic discussion of the political events that led to the institutionalisation of the developmental state in Ethiopia in the course of the 2000s and 2010s.

This book develops new ways of thinking beyond the nation as a form of political community by transcending ethnonational categories of 'us' and 'them'. Drawing on scholarship and cases spanning Pacific Asia and Europe, it provides a constructive agenda for critical nationalism studies.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figure and tables -- List of abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Peace building -- The rise of the post-Cold War peace and security architecture -- Integrated transition -- The "peace map" of a typical UN peace building operation -- Fragmentation not integration -- Conclusion: Explaining the recurring pattern to state formation in peace transitions -- 3 State building -- The evolution of post-conflict state building -- Building Denmark -- Building Leviathan -- The Core State Functions model

1. Introduction : the supply side of statebuilding / Patrice C. McMahon and Jon Western -- 2. The origins of statebuilding / Jon Western -- 3. Organizing for nation building : the post-Cold War experiences / James Dobbins -- 4. Peace processes and path dependence : institutionalizing ethnic division in Bosnia / Lise Morje Howard -- 5. From cacophony to choir : the statebuilding challenge in Kosovo / William O'Neill -- 6. Acting locally : shaping local governance reforms in Bosnia and Kosovo / Paula M. Pickering -- 7. International actors and cooperation in statebuilding in Afghanistan / Marvin G. Weinbaum -- 8. Constraints and context : a practitioner's view of statebuilding in Afghanistan / Ronald E. Neumann -- 9. Coalitions at the limits : NATO's restricted effort in Afghanistan / David P. Auerswald and Stephen M. Saideman -- 10. Statebuilding in Iraq : an American failure, lately redeemed / Daniel Serwer.

This guidebook is designed as a contribution to future nation-building efforts. It is organized around the components that make up any nation-building mission: planning, military and police contingents, civil administrators, humanitarian and relief efforts, governance, economic stabilization, democratization, and infrastructure development

Cameroon is often considered to be Africaís legendary pathfinder. This book argues essentially that Cameroon cannot competently champion African unity and progress until it can correctly pursue its own multicultural nation-building. Cameroon's success continental-wise would depend on its theory and practice of multiculturalism, as particularly reflected in (1) the rejoicing in its historical diversity and the harmonious co-existence of its Systems of Education which must, of necessity, be linked to (2) effective federalization or decentralization of uniquely cultural matters. Critically examining history and education as components of culture, and therefore, of multiculturalism, the book makes some bold recommendations while demonstrating how nation-building is meaningless without the peopleís authentic history. It argues that Cameroon national culture cannot be a national culture without embodying the distinct culture of the Englishlish-speaking minority. Anything else is nothing but deliberate confusion of assimilation for multiculturalism, a confusion that is heavily tied to the countryís phoney independence. Hinging on education (and its associates of bilingualism and bijuralism), the book demonstrates that Cameroonís over-sung cultural dualism is a charade, epitomized by the 1998 Education Law. Rather than reaffirm Cameroonís biculturalism as it superficially avows, Cameroonís purported cultural dualism is really out to efface any semblance of cultural or educational dualism that may still be resisting assimilation. The continuous and persistent employment of terms such as biculturalism, bilingualism and bijuralism in legal texts in Cameroon is only to confuse the international community, especially from seeing exactly the kind of ëethnic cleansingí which is taking place in the country.

The growth of institutional capacity in the developing world has become a central theme in twenty-first-century social science. Many studies have shown that public institutions are an important determinant of long-run rates of economic growth. This book argues that to understand the difficulties and pitfalls of state building in the contemporary world, it is necessary to analyze previous efforts to create institutional capacity in conflictive contexts. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the process of state and nation building in Latin America and Spain from independence to the 1930s. The book examines how Latin American countries and Spain tried to build modern and efficient state institutions for more than a century - without much success. The Spanish and Latin American experience of the nineteenth century was arguably the first regional stage on which the organizational and political dilemmas that still haunt states were faced. This book provides an unprecedented perspective on the development and contemporary outcome of those state and nation-building projects

Strong states and strong civil societies are now increasingly hailed as the twin drivers of a 'rising Africa'. Current attempts to support growth and democracy are part of a longer history of promoting projects of disciplinary, regulatory and liberal rule and values beyond 'the West'. Yet this is not simply Western domination of a passive continent. Such an interpretation misses out on the complexities and nuances of the politics of state-building and civil society promotion, and the central role of African agency. Drawing upon critical theory, including postcolonial and governmentality approaches, this book interrogates international practices of state-building and civil society support in Africa. It seeks to develop a theoretically informed critical approach to discourses and interventions such as those associated with broadly 'Western' initiatives in Africa. In doing so, the book highlights the power relations, inequalities, coercion and violence that are deeply implicated within contemporary international interventions on the African continent. Providing a range of empirical cases and theoretical approaches, the chapters are united by their critical treatment of political dynamics in Africa. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of African politics, development studies, postcolonial theory, International Relations, international political economy and peacekeeping/making.

Der Verfasser stellt die Frage nach der Existenz eines russischen Nationalstaats in Bezug auf unterschiedliche Epochen der russischen Geschichte. Für das Zarenreich sieht er die Trennung zwischen gosudarstvo und zemlia, zwischen Staat und Gemeinschaft, und das Fehlen intermediärer Institutionen und Strukturen als ausschlaggebend dafür an, daß von einer russischen Nation weder im staatsbürgerlichen nach im ethnischen Sinne gesprochen werden kann. Die Sowjetunion befand sich nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg auf dem Weg zu einem großen Nationalstaat, aber auch hier fehlte es an intermediären Strukturen, die der neuen interethnischen Solidarität Ausdruck hätten geben können. Für die durchsetzungsfähigste Definition der russischen Nation im postkommunistischen Rußland hält der Verfasser die Bestimmung der russischen Nation als Gesamtheit der Staatsbürger der Russischen Föderation. Gebildete Russen definieren ihre Nation primär über Sprache und Kultur. Hierin sieht der Verfasser einen positiven Ansatz, verglichen etwa mit dem militaristischen Nationalismus der Serben. (BIOst-Wpt)

This volume examines and evaluates the impact of international statebuilding interventions on the political economy of conflict-affected countries over the past 20 years. It focuses on countries that are emerging, or have recently emerged, from periods of war and protracted conflict. The interventions covered fall into three broad categories:international administrations and transformative occupations (East Timor, Iraq, and Kosovo); complex peace operations (Afghanistan, Burundi, Haiti, and Sudan); governance and statebuilding programmes

Following on a series of RAND Corporation studies of nation-building, this monograph analyzes the impediments that local conditions pose to successful outcomes in these interventions. It examines how external actors and local leaders in a variety of societies modified or worked around those conditions to promote enduring peace

This volume provides a comparative study of exit with regard to international operations of a state-building nature. The essays focus on the empirical experiences of, and scholarly and policy questions associated with, exit in relation to four families of experience: colonial administrations, peace support operations, international territorial administrations, and transformative military occupations