Nation-Building as Necessary Effort in Fragile States
Grotenhuis, René
Nation-Building as Necessary Effort in Fragile States - Amsterdam University Press 2016 - 1 electronic resource (200 p.)
Open Access
Policies intended to bring stability to fragile states tend to focus almost exclusively on building institutions and systems to get governance right. Simply building the state is often seen as sufficient for making it stable and legitimate. But policies like these, René Grotenhuis shows in this book, ignore the question of what makes people belong to a nation-state, arguing that issues of identity, culture, and religion are crucial to creating the sense of belonging and social cohesion that a stable nation-state requires.
Creative Commons
English
9789462982192
10.5117/9789462982192 doi
Politics & government
(layered) identity nation-building fragile states Ethnic group International community State-building
Nation-Building as Necessary Effort in Fragile States - Amsterdam University Press 2016 - 1 electronic resource (200 p.)
Open Access
Policies intended to bring stability to fragile states tend to focus almost exclusively on building institutions and systems to get governance right. Simply building the state is often seen as sufficient for making it stable and legitimate. But policies like these, René Grotenhuis shows in this book, ignore the question of what makes people belong to a nation-state, arguing that issues of identity, culture, and religion are crucial to creating the sense of belonging and social cohesion that a stable nation-state requires.
Creative Commons
English
9789462982192
10.5117/9789462982192 doi
Politics & government
(layered) identity nation-building fragile states Ethnic group International community State-building