State formation after civil war: Local government in national peace transitions

dc.contributor.authorPowell, Derek
dc.date.accessioned2021-08-20T10:47:35Z
dc.date.available2021-08-20T10:47:35Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractState formation after civil war offers a new model for studying the formation of the state in a national peace transition as an integrated national phenomenon. Current models of peacebuilding and state building limit that possibility, reproducing a fragmented, selective view of this complex reality. Placing too much emphasis on state building as design they place too little on understanding state formation as unplanned historical process. The dominant focus on national institutions also ignores the role that cities and civic polities have played in constituting the modern state. Mining ideas from many disciplines and evidence from 19 peace processes, including South Africa, the book argues that the starting point for building a systematic theory is to explain a distinct pattern to state formation that can be observed in practice: Despite their conflicts people in fragile societies bargain terms for peaceful coexistence, they make attempts to constitute the right to rule as valid state authority, in circumstances prone to conflict, over which they have imperfect influence, not control. Though the kind of institutions created will differ with context, how rules for state authority are institutionalized follows a consistent basic pattern. That pattern defines state formation in peace transitions as both a unified, if contingent, field of normative practice and an object of comparative study.en_US
dc.identifier.citationPowell, D.M. (2016). State formation after civil war: Local government in national peace transitions (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315558059en_US
dc.identifier.isbn9781315558059
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.4324/9781315558059
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/6526
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis groupen_US
dc.subjectCivil waren_US
dc.subjectState formationen_US
dc.subjectNational peace transitionsen_US
dc.subjectLocal governmenten_US
dc.titleState formation after civil war: Local government in national peace transitionsen_US
dc.typeBooken_US

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