1. Improving Structural Theories of International Politics 1 . - 2. Socializing States in the International System 28 . - 3. Socializing the United States: Emergence to Major Member 48 . - 4. Socializing the Unites States: Structural Imperatives and Great Power Status 82 . - 5. Socializing Israel: Emergence to Major Member 103 . - 6. Conclusion 141
In: Conflict management and peace science: CMPS ; journal of the Peace Science Society ; papers contributing to the scientific study of conflict and conflict analysis, Band 27, Heft 4, S. 347-369
This article examines the political geography of state building in contemporary sub-Saharan Africa. The absence of interstate war has produced a unique situation for contemporary state builders in Africa - they have inherited states with relatively fixed borders encapsulating a variety of environmental and geographic conditions, compounded by varying distributions of population densities. The author examines the effects of a variety of strategies that African rulers have employed to enhance their state-building efforts given the type of national design they inhabit. These strategies include the allocation of citizenship, interventions in land tenure patterns, and the adoption and management of national currencies. The author tests the effects of these strategies on several dimensions of state capacity in sub-Saharan Africa from 1960 to 2004 using a variety of statistical analyses. The results indicate that the strategies currently adopted by african rulers have generally failed to substantially augment their capacity. (World Politics / SWP)