TY - GEN AU - Grotenhuis,René TI - Nation-Building as Necessary Effort in Fragile States SN - 9789462982192 PY - 2016/// PB - Amsterdam University Press KW - Politics & government KW - bicssc KW - (layered) identity KW - nation-building KW - fragile states KW - Ethnic group KW - International community KW - State-building N1 - Open Access N2 - 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 UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32038/1/619591.pdf UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32038/1/619591.pdf UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32038/1/619591.pdf UR - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/26818 ER -