State Failure, State Collapse, and State Reconstruction: Concepts, Lessons and Strategies

Milliken, Jennifer; Krause, Keith

doi:10.1111/1467-7660.t01-1-00247

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“…Polarisierung (Montalvo/ReynalQuerol 2005) per se eine konfliktförderne Wirkung zugesprochen werden kann -was durchaus vehement bestritten wurde (Fearon et al 2007, Collier et al 2006, Feron/Laitin 2003, Collier/Hoeffler 2004. Nun da deutlich wurde, dass kulturelle Vielfalt per se nicht ausschlaggebend ist, stehen politische (Sambanis/Skaperdas 2017, Cedermann et al 2015, Buhaug et al 2014, Brancati 2006, Milliken/ Krause 2003, Gurr 1993, sozioökonomische (Guariso/Rogall 2017, Buhaug et al 2014, Sambanis/Milanovic 2014, Gubler/Selway 2012, Croissant et al 2009, Østby 2008, und historische (Lake/ Rothchild 1998) Kontextfaktoren, die vermeintlich die Konfliktwahrscheinlichkeit steigern bzw. mindern, im Zentrum der Debatte.…”

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Innerstaatliche politische Konflikte und die Anerkennung kultureller Besonderheit. Der Beitrag Will Kymlickas multikulturalistischer politischer Theorie zur empirischen Konfliktforschung

Guérin

2017

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Intrastate politicical conflicts and the recognition of cultural particularitiesThe contribution of Will Kymlicka's multiculturalist political theory to empirical conflict research Abstract The multiculturalist theory by Will Kymlicka studies conditions of a "good democracy" in culturally heterogeneous societies. In this context Kymlicka pleads for social and political recognition of cultural minorities. How relevant are these demands when it comes to intrastate cultural conflicts? The aim of this paper is to create a dialogue between the multiculturalist theory and quantitative conflict research. To this end a preliminary regression analysis was conducted. It generated three main results: Out of all demands formulated by Kymlicka only political representation rights effectively diminish conflict probability. Autonomy rights even seem to have the opposite effect, thus to increase conflict probability. The tolerance of a society does not impact on the conflict probability. The central (multiculturalist) insight, of relevance for both academics and practioners, hereby is that political recognition can only have an impact, if any, if the targeted groups actually feel recognized.

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Innerstaatliche politische Konflikte und die Anerkennung kultureller Besonderheit. Der Beitrag Will Kymlickas multikulturalistischer politischer Theorie zur empirischen Konfliktforschung

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2017

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“…Clapham further suggests that: "In situations of state collapse no such leverage can be exerted because the levers do not exist or simply snap in their would be users ' hands" (2002:777). Hence, the priority accorded to political transitions that expedite the (re)creation of central apparatuses of governance that can deliver the main elements of state functions: security, representation and welfare (Milliken and Krause 2002).…”

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آينه افغان ايد : نشريه داخلي سه ماهه مؤسسه افغان ايد = Afghanaid mirror

2013

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“…Dominant though they still may be in much policy discourse about Africa -particularly in the realm of development, peace-building and 'antiterrorism' -arguments about state failure and collapse have been subject to growing criticism. In 2002, the collection of articles edited by Milliken and Krause (2002) demonstrated the complex and non-linear nature of processes of state failure and collapse, and showed that the latter remained an exception even in the context of African civil wars of the 1990s. Critics of the state failure paradigm contend that state weakness in Africa is nothing new, but rather a long historic continuity (Engel and Mehler, 2005: 91).…”

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Negotiating Statehood: Dynamics of Power and Domination in Africa

Hagmann

Péclard

2011

Negotiating Statehood

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This article, which forms the introduction to a collection of studies, focuses on processes of state construction and deconstruction in contemporary Africa. Its objective is to better understand how local, national and transnational actors forge and remake the state through processes of negotiation, contestation and bricolage. Following a critique of the predominant state failure literature and its normative and analytical shortcomings, the authors identify four key arguments of the scholarly literature on the state in Africa, which concern the historicity of the state in Africa, the embeddedness of bureaucratic organizations in society, the symbolic and material dimensions of statehood and the importance of legitimacy. A heuristic framework entitled 'negotiating statehood' is proposed, referring to the dynamic and partly undetermined processes of state formation and failure by a multitude of social actors who compete over the institutionalization of power relations. The article then operationalizes this framework in three sections that partly conceptualize, partly illustrate who negotiates statehood in contemporary Africa (actors, resources and repertoires); where these negotiation processes occur (negotiation arenas and tables); and what these processes are all about (objects of negotiation). Empirical examples drawn from a variety of political contexts across the African continent illustrate these propositions.

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State Failure, State Collapse, and State Reconstruction: Concepts, Lessons and Strategies

Cited by 204 publications

References 4 publications

Innerstaatliche politische Konflikte und die Anerkennung kultureller Besonderheit. Der Beitrag Will Kymlickas multikulturalistischer politischer Theorie zur empirischen Konfliktforschung

Innerstaatliche politische Konflikte und die Anerkennung kultureller Besonderheit. Der Beitrag Will Kymlickas multikulturalistischer politischer Theorie zur empirischen Konfliktforschung

آينه افغان ايد : نشريه داخلي سه ماهه مؤسسه افغان ايد = Afghanaid mirror

Negotiating Statehood: Dynamics of Power and Domination in Africa

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