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1. From Nation-Building to State-Building

   Edited by Mark T Berger

   Series: ThirdWorlds

   This book examines the history of nation-building during the era of decolonization and the Cold War, and on the more recent post-Cold War and post-9/11 pursuit of nation-building in what have become known as ‘collapsed’ or ‘failed’ states. In the post-Cold War and post-9/11 era nation-building,...

   Published February 22nd 2009 by Routledge
2. The Long War - Insurgency, Counterinsurgency and Collapsing States

   Edited by Mark T. Berger, Douglas A. Borer

   Series: ThirdWorlds

   The rise and fall of the Cold War coincided with the universalization and consolidation of the modern nation-state as the key unit of the wider international system. A key characteristic of the post-Cold War era, in which the US has emerged as the sole superpower, is the growing number of...

   Published February 19th 2009 by Routledge
3. After the Third World?

   Edited by Mark T. Berger

   Series: ThirdWorlds

   The emergence of the 'Third World' is generally traced to onset of the Cold War and decolonization in the 1940s and 1950s. In the 1960s and 1970s the "three worlds of development" were central to the wider dynamics of the changing international order. By the 1980s, Third Worldism had peaked...

   Published November 26th 2008 by Routledge
4. Recognition and Redistribution

   Beyond International Development

   Edited by Heloise Weber, Mark T. Berger

   Series: Rethinking Globalizations

   This is an innovative and insightful approach to the global politics of development. The authors challenge conventional perspectives of, and approaches to, development and offer alternative accounts of the politics of development from the perspective of non-state centred and non-state centric...

   Published October 26th 2008 by Routledge
5. The Battle for Asia

   From Decolonization to Globalization

   By Mark T. Berger

   Series: Asia's Transformations

   Asia has long been an ideological battleground between capitalism and communism, between nationalism and Westernisation and between the nation-state and globalization. This book is a history of the Asian region from 1945 to the present day which delineates the various ideological battles over...

   Published October 22nd 2003 by Routledge