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xiv, 429 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
The elements of right-sizing and right-peopling the state / Brendan O'Leary -- Thresholds of opportunity and barriers to change in the right-sizing of states / Ian S. Lustick -- From reshaping to resizing a failing state? The case of the Congo/Zaïre / Thomas M. Callaghy -- Resizing and reshaping the state: India from partition to the present / Gurharpal Singh -- The negotiable state: borders and power-struggles in Pakistan / Vali Nasr -- Reifying boundaries, fetishizing the nation: Soviet legacies and élite legitimacy in the post-Soviet states / Alexander J. Motyl -- Turkey's Kurdish problem: borders, identity, and hegemony / Ümit Cizre -- Manufacturing identity and managing Kurds in Iraq / Denise Natali -- Indigestible lands? Comparing the fates of western Sahara and East Timor / Stephen Zunes -- Right-sizing over the Jordan: the politics of down-sizing borders / Marc Lynch -- 'Right-sizing' or 'right-shaping'? Politics, ethnicity, and territory in plural states / Oren Yiftachel -- Conclusion: right-sizing and the alignment of states and collective identities / Ian S. Lustick.
edited by Brendan O'Leary, Ian S. Lustick, Thomas Callaghy.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.