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Statebuilding and Nationbuilding
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Goetze, C, Statebuilding and Nationbuilding, The International Studies Encyclopedia, Wiley-Blackwell, RA Denemark (ed), Chichester, pp. 6593-6614. ISBN 9780191842665 (2010) [Research Book Chapter]
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Abstract
Max Weber famously stated in his Economy and Society that "the [modern], rational
state has only existed in the Occident" (Weber 1925; translation by the author). Yet,
as indisputable as this claim might have been at the beginning of the twentieth
century, states have since been built around the world during diverse decolonization
processes, and continued to be externally "constructed" by powerful international
voluntarism in the past decade. As a result of the enigmatic practices of slate building,
the term is as fuzzy as any major social science concept and it continues to be subject
to numerous partial interpretations contingent on the political contexts in which it
is used. Numerous authors have thus tried to clarify the very concept of state building,
and a plethora of special issues and edited volumes have scrutinized its implicit and
explicit meanings (Chesterman 2004; Goetze and Guzina 2004; Paris 2004; Caplan
2005a).
Item Details
Item Type: | Research Book Chapter |
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Keywords: | Statebuilding, nationbuilding, post colonialisation |
Research Division: | Studies in Human Society |
Research Group: | Political Science |
Research Field: | International Relations |
Objective Division: | Law, Politics and Community Services |
Objective Group: | International Relations |
Objective Field: | International Organisations |
UTAS Author: | Goetze, C (Dr Catherine Goetze) |
ID Code: | 122507 |
Year Published: | 2010 |
Deposited By: | Office of the School of Social Sciences |
Deposited On: | 2017-11-16 |
Last Modified: | 2017-12-05 |
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