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Marion Keim maintains that through properly organized sport South Africans can learn to play together with respect, learn to all be on the same team and in the process contribute to the building of a new South Africa.
Author : Marion Keim
Publisher : Meyer & Meyer Verlag
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,88 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 1841260991
Marion Keim maintains that through properly organized sport South Africans can learn to play together with respect, learn to all be on the same team and in the process contribute to the building of a new South Africa.
Author : Keith W. Mines
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 27,25 MB
Release : 2020-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1640122826
Why Nation-Building Matters establishes a framework for building security forces, economic development, and political consolidation that blends soft and hard power into a deployable and effective package.
Author : Andreas Wimmer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 30,14 MB
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0691177384
A new and comprehensive look at the reasons behind successful or failed nation building Nation Building presents bold new answers to an age-old question. Why is national integration achieved in some diverse countries, while others are destabilized by political inequality between ethnic groups, contentious politics, or even separatism and ethnic war? Traversing centuries and continents from early nineteenth-century Europe and Asia to Africa from the turn of the twenty-first century to today, Andreas Wimmer delves into the slow-moving forces that encourage political alliances to stretch across ethnic divides and build national unity. Using datasets that cover the entire world and three pairs of case studies, Wimmer’s theory of nation building focuses on slow-moving, generational processes: the spread of civil society organizations, linguistic assimilation, and the states’ capacity to provide public goods. Wimmer contrasts Switzerland and Belgium to demonstrate how the early development of voluntary organizations enhanced nation building; he examines Botswana and Somalia to illustrate how providing public goods can bring diverse political constituencies together; and he shows that the differences between China and Russia indicate how a shared linguistic space may help build political alliances across ethnic boundaries. Wimmer then reveals, based on the statistical analysis of large-scale datasets, that these mechanisms are at work around the world and explain nation building better than competing arguments such as democratic governance or colonial legacies. He also shows that when political alliances crosscut ethnic divides and when most ethnic communities are represented at the highest levels of government, the general populace will identify with the nation and its symbols, further deepening national political integration. Offering a long-term historical perspective and global outlook, Nation Building sheds important new light on the challenges of political integration in diverse countries.
Author : Harris Mylonas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 15,37 MB
Release : 2013-02-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1139619810
What drives a state's choice to assimilate, accommodate or exclude ethnic groups within its territory? In this innovative work on the international politics of nation-building, Harris Mylonas argues that a state's nation-building policies toward non-core groups - individuals perceived as an ethnic group by the ruling elite of a state - are influenced by both its foreign policy goals and its relations with the external patrons of these groups. Through a detailed study of the Balkans, Mylonas shows that how a state treats a non-core group within its own borders is determined largely by whether the state's foreign policy is revisionist or cleaves to the international status quo, and whether it is allied or in rivalry with that group's external patrons. Mylonas injects international politics into the study of nation-building, building a bridge between international relations and the comparative politics of ethnicity and nationalism.
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Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 11,90 MB
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ISBN : 1621968715
Author : Karl W. Deutsch
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,41 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Political science
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Author : Francis Fukuyama
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,70 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780801883347
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Author : James Dobbins
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 13,46 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0833039881
Since the end of the Cold War, the United States, NATO, the United Nations, and a range of other states and nongovernmental organizations have become increasingly involved in nation-building operations. This volume presents a comprehensive history of best practices in nation-building and serves as an indispensable reference for planning future interventions.
Author : René Grotenhuis
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,49 MB
Release : 2016
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9789462982192
René Grotenhuis analyses policies intended to bring stability to fragile states and shows how they ignore the question of what gives people a sense of belonging to a nation-state.
Author : Matt Andrews
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 21,81 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0198747489
Governments play a major role in the development process, and constantly introduce reforms and policies to achieve developmental objectives. Many of these interventions have limited impact, however; schools get built but children don't learn, IT systems are introduced but not used, plans are written but not implemented. These achievement deficiencies reveal gaps in capabilities, and weaknesses in the process of building state capability. This book addresses these weaknesses and gaps. It starts by providing evidence of the capability shortfalls that currently exist in many countries, showing that many governments lack basic capacities even after decades of reforms and capacity building efforts. The book then analyses this evidence, identifying capability traps that hold many governments back - particularly related to isomorphic mimicry (where governments copy best practice solutions from other countries that make them look more capable even if they are not more capable) and premature load bearing (where governments adopt new mechanisms that they cannot actually make work, given weak extant capacities). The book then describes a process that governments can use to escape these capability traps. Called PDIA (problem driven iterative adaptation), this process empowers people working in governments to find and fit solutions to the problems they face. The discussion about this process is structured in a practical manner so that readers can actually apply tools and ideas to the capability challenges they face in their own contexts. These applications will help readers devise policies and reforms that have more impact than those of the past.