Democratisation via elections in an African 'narco state'? [PDF]
, 2012 Recent development cooperation with Guinea-Bissau, focussing on good governance, state-building and conflict prevention, did not contribute to democratization nor to the stabilization of volatile political, military and economic structures.
Kohnert, Dirk
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Fearless Friday: Ashley Fernandez
, 2015 This week, SURGE is delighted to honor Ashley Fernandez ’16 for Fearless Friday! Ashley is a senior at Gettysburg and is majoring in Political Science and Public Policy.
Bassler, Christina L.
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Fault in the mandate and flaws in state-building logic: The Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands [PDF]
, 2014 The mandate, or terms of reference, applicable to a state-building mission should clearly articulate the activities and actions of the intervention in order to maintain progress and to provide a clear outline for those undertaking the programmes.
Evans, Kylie
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(WP 2013-03) War and the Fiscal Capacity of the State [PDF]
, 2013 We examine the role of war in retarding state fiscal capacity in developing countries, measured by tax revenue ratios to GDP. This in contrast to the European experience from the Renaissance to the 20th century, where it is believed that war and state ...
Chowdhury, Abdur, Murshed, Syed M.
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'Good' state vs. 'bad' warlords? A critique of state-building strategies in Afghanistan [PDF]
, 2004 The current Afghan government, having weak social roots has been forced to rely on the support of ‘warlords’ to stay in power. But a high price had to be paid.
Giustozzi, Antonio
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Die Internationale KOntrollkommission Albaniens und die albanischen Machtzentren (1913/1914). Beitrag zur Geschichte der Staatsbildung Albaniens [PDF]
, 2016 The Albanian International Commission of Control and the Albanian power centres (1913–1914) – Contribution to the history of the state-building process in Albania The best guarantee of protecting the rights of Christian minorities on the European ...
Csaplár-Degovics, Krisztián
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Iraq : a deeply divided polity and challenges to democracy-building [PDF]
, 2010 In the post-2003 Iraq, democratization and state building have contradictorily overlapped with dramatic consequences. The major constraint to Iraq’s statebuilding project is the misfit between identity and sovereignty of the state in a multi-ethnic and ...
Bapir, Mohammed Ali
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Afghanistan: more echoes of the Soviet experience [PDF]
, 2010 Over at Slate, Frank Kaplan writes that NATO forces in Afghanistan are starting to shift their focus from the state-building aspects of COIN to more traditional military operations. Not that the state building effort is dead, writes Kaplan, but “U.S. and
Kalinovsky, Artemy
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Imperial Ethiopia: Conquest and the Case of National Articulation [PDF]
, 2016 The general assumption holds that war played a critical role in the state-building processes of Western European nation-states. In light of this assumption, this paper explores the predatory theory and the centrality of war in the processes of ...
Tilahune, Hawi T
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Демократичні традиції українського державотворення [PDF]
, 2011 Кормич А. І. Демократичні традиції українського державотворення / А. І. Кормич // Актуальні проблеми політики : зб. наук. пр. / редкол. : С. В. Ківалов (голов. ред.), Л. І. Кормич (заст. голов. ред.), Ю. П.
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