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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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Published: Amsterdam University Press 2016
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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-320382022-04-26T11:19:21Z Nation-Building as Necessary Effort in Fragile States Grotenhuis, René (layered) identity nation-building fragile states Ethnic group International community State-building bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government 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. 2016-12-31 23:55:55 2019-12-10 14:46:32 2020-04-01T13:56:44Z 2020-04-01T13:56:44Z 2016 book 619591 OCN: 961451358 9789462982192 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32038 eng application/pdf n/a 619591.pdf Amsterdam University Press 10.5117/9789462982192 10.5117/9789462982192 dd3d1a33-0ac2-4cfe-a101-355ae1bd857a 9789462982192 200 open access
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