1st Edition
State-building Interventions in Post-Conflict Liberia Building a State without Citizens
By Susanne Mulbah
Copyright 2018
280 Pages
by
Routledge
280 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
280 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Post-conflict Liberia has been subjected to extensive international state-building, at some point hosting the largest and one of the longest UN peacekeeping missions in the world, and inflow of aid that exceeds in multiples the GDP. In order to understand the international state-building efforts in Liberia, it is pertinent to reflect them against the extractive and predatory nature of the... Read more
Introduction
1. The Path of the Liberian State from Settler Colony to Failed State
2. State-Building Interventions
3. Limited Access State
4. Electoral Democracy
5. Regime Security or Human Security
6. Rule of Law: Which Law?
7. Political Economy: From Conditionality to Concessionary Economic Policy
8. Land Rights: ‘Protecting Integrity of Indigenous Land Rights’?
Conclusion - Extractivism, Economic Rights and Legitimacy
Biography
Dr Susanne Mulbah is an Associate Fellow within the African Leadership Centre, King’s College London, UK.
