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AbstractSouthern Sudan's past crises have mobilised consistent flows of humanitarian assistance. Recalling the humanitarian catastrophes and international interventions of the 1990s–2000s, the war that exploded in South Sudan in 2013 has been no exception. This paper shows that the SPLM/A political elite promptly incorporated these flows of external resources into its extraverted strategies of state-building. Similar to the current situation, it did so by appropriating not only material assets but also discourses, playing the 'fragile state' card and raising fears of governance failure and state collapse. This paper analyses two specific aspects of international support to Southern Sudan in the 1990s–2000s: the political legitimisation of the movement through the negotiation of relief delivery, and direct support to rebel local government structures. These two aspects contributed to the creation of a state that substantially overlapped with the SPLM/A structure, thanks to the movement's capacity to capitalise on external resources, a subject worth analysing in future research.

Silverstein reviews MAKING ENEMIES: War and State Building in Burma by Mary P. Callahan.

Jiang reviews 'The United States and Northeast Asia' by Robert H. Puckett.

Popular opposition to immigration is rooted in many factors. In this essay, we focus on one specific issue that has become prominent in recent debates—namely, the fear that the welfare state is being undermined by the impact of increasing ethnic and racial diversity. There are actually two concerns here: first, that ethnic and racial diversity as such makes it more difficult to sustain redistributive social policies because it is difficult to generate feelings of national solidarity and trust across ethnic and racial lines, and second, that the "multiculturalism" policies adopted to recognize or accommodate immigrant groups tend to further undermine national solidarity and trust. If either of these hypotheses were true, the very idea of a "multicultural welfare state," a welfare state that respects and accommodates diversity, would be almost a contradiction in terms. We review the existing evidence and suggest that both hypotheses are overstated. The evidence to date suggests that there is no inherent tendency for either immigrant ethnic diversity or multiculturalism policies to erode the welfare state. We conclude with some speculation about the implications of this evidence for debates about the rights of noncitizens.

This book hopes to provide information on a topic that, although somewhat polemic because it touches upon thorny topics that lay bare the social and economic structure of contemporary society, must be commented on and documented in comparing the dynamic A

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This dissertation is an ethnographic study of educational and security activism in the Costa Chica region of Guerrero, Mexico. The researcher closely examined two organizations that are connected through historical struggles and cultural heterogeneity: the community policing organization Upoeg (Unión de Pueblos y Organizaciones del Estado de Guerrero) and the grassroots university Unisur (Universidad de los Pueblos del Sur). While Upoeg was created in response to unsafe living conditions and drug-related violence, Unisur addresses the lack of access to higher education, as well as culturally and politically relevant education. Taken together, the education and security project embody civic responses to local needs beyond issues of insecurity and intercultural education. Their activism offers insight into the way rural citizens in Guerrero seek to reshape cultural-ethnic identities, political relations and institutions at the local and regional levels. Based on eleven months of fieldwork between 2014 and 2015, this dissertation examines what happens when rural and ethnically-diverse citizens rethink education and security in settings characterized by institutionalized multiculturalism and violence. Two scholarly fields are explored to study Unisur and Upoeg. The researcher employs debates in political anthropology about power and social contestation, and connects these to discussions about multicultural politics in Latin America. She argues in favor of studying aspirational claims around legitimate authority and the social practices enacted by people to obtain final say over local questions of security, education and governance more generally. Exploring how all this takes place through interplay with civil society, armed groups and multiple state actors brings the political dimension of both policing and educational activism to light. The ethnographic study of Upoeg focuses on its emergence and developments as regional policing organization. By studying spatial practices and politics, the researcher examines how ...