Suchergebnisse

Theoretical and practical approaches to the efficacy of state agency; focuses on the US, Russia, Western Europe, Canada, Asia, India, Latin America, and Africa; 10 articles. Some emphasis on effects of economic, social, and environmental change, and on the European Union.

The communitarian nation / Imad Salamey -- Pluralism in contested nationhood : the Lebanese predicament / Chahine A. Ghais -- Politics makes for strange bedfellows : exigency and sectarian politics in Lebanon / Rola El-Husseini -- Politics of co-existence / Elie Abouaoun -- Electoral systems in divided societies : the case of Lebanon / Chantal Sarkis -- Lebanon's double movement and pluralism / Rana Taher -- Lebanon's political economy of informality : elites, citizens and the state shape money(s) during the sovereign Deby crisis / Joseph P. Helou -- October 17 uprising and the challenge of the dialectics of inclusion and exclusion / Paul Tabar and Rasha Akel -- Protest movements for change : the October Revolution in Lebanon and the resilient political establishment / Joseph N. Bayeh -- Preserving the media sector amid political polarization and sectarian fragmentation / Manal Abdel Samad Najd -- An empirical study of Lebanese attitudes towards Syrian refugees : perception and inclusion / Simon Haddad -- Human security in a divided society / Maria Noujaim -- Reconstructing the communitarian state / Imad Salamey.

Social policy has treated welfare states as nation states. Contemporary processes seem to have unsettled the spatial, scalar and social coherence of nation-states. This article examines the challenge of rethinking the relationships of nation, state and welfare. It argues for a transnational conception of both the current remakings of nation, state and welfare, and of their past formations. Such a view casts doubt on the value of the container model of the nation-state, and makes visible the constitutive or nation-constructing role of welfare states.