200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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... Read more
Prologue: The urgency of reality, 1. Struggling in the world of Nation-States, 2. Nation and state, 3. Fragility: a donor's concept but not far from reality, 4. Nation building and state building and the challenge of fragility, 5. The Scylla and Charybdis of nation-building, 6. Nation-building: identity and identification, process and content, 7. Nation-building: sovereignty and citizenship, 8. Nationhood: multifaceted, 9. Nationhood: Civic, Religious, Cultural and ethnic identities, 10. A program of Nation-building, 11. Complementarity: peace-building, nation-building, state-building, 12. Epilogue: The reality of urgency
Biography
René Grotenhuis iis the former Executive Director of Cordaid, associate researcher at Utrecht University, and chairman of the Society for International Development in the Netherlands. He has published both in Dutch and English about Development cooperation and international relations.
