Nation-Building As Necessary Effort in Fragile States

René Grotenhuis analyses policies intended to bring stability to fragile states and shows how they ignore the question of what gives people a sense of belonging to a nation-state.

Sommario

Prologue: The urgency of reality, 1. Struggling in the world of Nation-States, 2. Nation and state, 3. Fragility: a donor's concept but not far from reality, 4. Nation building and state building and the challenge of fragility, 5. The Scylla and Charybdis of nation-building, 6. Nation-building: identity and identification, process and content, 7. Nation-building: sovereignty and citizenship, 8. Nationhood: multifaceted, 9. Nationhood: Civic, Religious, Cultural and ethnic identities, 10. A program of Nation-building, 11. Complementarity: peace-building, nation-building, state-building, 12. Epilogue: The reality of urgency

Info autore

René Grotenhuis iis the former Executive Director of Cordaid, associate researcher at Utrecht University, and chairman of the Society for International Development in the Netherlands. He has published both in Dutch and English about Development cooperation and international relations.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Drs Rene Grotenhuis, Drs. Rene Grotenhuis, Ren Grotenhuis, Rene Grotenhuis, René Grotenhuis
• Editore: Amsterdam University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.12.2016
• EAN: 9789462982192
• ISBN: 978-94-62-98219-2
• Pagine: 200
• Serie: Amsterdam University Press
• Categoria: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva