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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...

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Main Author: Grotenhuis, René (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2016.
Subjects:
Nation-building.
Nation-state.
Reconstruction d'une nation.
Nation.
nations.
Politics and government.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > General.
Nationenbildung
Friedenskonsolidierung
(layered) identity.
nation-building.
fragile states.
Electronic books.
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (201 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789048532124
9048532124