Suchergebnisse

Chapter 1: Introduction: Challenges of State Formation -- Chapter 2: Theories of State Formation -- Chapter 3: Proto-state Formation: Ethiopia -- Chapter 4: Colonial State Formation -- Chapter 5: The National Liberation State -- Chapter 6: State Legitimacy and Government Performance in the Horn of Africa -- Chapter 7: Common Characteristics of the Three Typologies of State Formation: Synthesis -- Chapter 8: Conclusion.

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction: Challenges of State Formation -- Introduction -- Pathologies Hampering State Formation in the HOA -- Interplay of the Pathologies -- External Interventions -- Conceptual Framework -- Methodology -- Theme and Organisation of the Book -- References -- 2 Theories of State Formation -- Introduction -- Evolution of the State -- Structural-Functionalist Theory -- Institutionalist Theory -- Social Contract Theory -- Theories of the Origin of the State -- Theory of the Colonial Origins of the State: The Bastard State -- Diffusion Theory -- Decolonisation as an Exercise of the Right to Self-Determination and State Formation -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Proto-State Formation: Ethiopia -- Introduction -- A Brief History of Statehood: The Dynastic Origin of the State -- The Emergence of the Modern State in Ethiopia -- Haile Selassie: The Modernising Monarch -- Military-Revolutionary Socialist State Formation -- Rebellion, Ethnic Nationalism and Ethnic Federalist State Formation -- Multiethnic State Formation Versus Ethnic Nationalist State Formation -- Post-EPRDF and Post-Revolutionary Democracy State Formation -- Ethnic Federalist State Formation Versus Civic State Formation -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 Colonial State Formation -- Introduction -- State Formation Under the Aegis of Colonialism -- Consequences of Colonialism: State Deformity -- Decolonisation: The Postcolonial State -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 The National Liberation State -- Introduction -- Protracted War and the Role of National Liberation Movements -- Characteristics of the National Liberation State -- Eritrea, South Sudan and Somaliland -- Eritrea -- South Sudan -- Somaliland -- Challenges of Post-Liberation State Formation -- Conclusion -- References.

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