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This edited book on constructive ethnicity argues that the modernizing state system in developing countries unduly denies a legitimate place to the linguistic and ethnic groups who, despite habitual attachment to ethnic groups, might meaningfully help the slow process of state building. Here ethnicity is characterized as positive, and as such, moral and pragmatic. Despite ethnicity's natural inclination to polarization, a national community can be reconstructed, as is exemplified by recent events in Rwanda, Cyprus, India, Palestine, and China

In Alliance Curse, Hilton Root illustrates that recent U.S. foreign policy is too often misguided, resulting in misdirected foreign aid and alliances that stunt political and economic development among partner regimes, leaving America on the wrong side of change. Many alliances with third world dictators, ostensibly of mutual benefit, reduce incentives to govern for prosperity and produce instead political and social instability and economic failure. Yet again, in the war on terror and in the name of preserving global stability, America is backing authoritarian regimes that practice repression

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction: The elusive goal -- 2 Ambitions: The state-building agenda of UN transitional administrations -- 3 Concepts: The rule of law in UN state-building missions -- 4 The line of least resistance: The UN Transitional Authority in Cambodia -- 5 State-building without a state: The UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo -- 6 Beyond the blank slate: The UN Transitional Administration in East Timor -- 7 No entry without strategy -- Bibliography -- Index.

The first insider's account of the Bush administration's post-9/11 diplomacy.

The Australian nation is a work in progress. So conclude the authors whose views are represented in this most recent offering in the ANZSOG monograph series, Australia Under Construction: Nation-building past, present and future. From its beginnings as a settler society through to present day concerns about 'broadbanding the nation', the nation-building narrative has resonated with Australians. The very idea of nation-building has both excited the popular imagination about what we might achieve as a society and a nation, and has occasioned despair about missed opportunities. The eleven authors contributing to this monograph reflect on these, and other themes from a variety of perspectives. They challenge our understanding of the term 'nation-building', reflect on its contemporary relevance as a framework for public policy and even re-appraise the contribution of past 'iconic' nation-building endeavours. To this subject the authors bring intelligence, wit and a healthy disdain for sacred cows. A stimulating read for anyone interested in the history, challenges and prospects of nation-building in Australia.

Albania -- Sierra Leone -- Macedonia -- Côte d'Ivoire -- Democratic Republic of the Congo -- Bosnia -- Solomon Islands -- Comparative analysis -- Conclusions

This examination of the 1991 uprisings in Iraq demonstrates how external intervention by the UN and other actors in ethnic conflicts has contributed to the problems with democratization experienced in the post-Saddam era.

Preliminary material /Editors Editing the Nation's Memory -- AUTHORS IN THIS VOLUME /Editors Editing the Nation's Memory -- INTRODUCTION. PHILOLOGY AND THE EUROPEAN CONSTRUCTION OF NATIONAL LITERATURES /Joep Leerssen -- A DARWINIAN CHANGE IN EUROPEAN EDITORIAL THINKING /Dirk Van Hulle -- THE ANGEL OF PHILOLOGY /Geert Lernout -- SLOVENE TEXT EDITIONS, SLAVIC PHILOLOGY AND NATION-BUILDING /Darko Dolinar -- INSCRIBING ORALITY: THE FIRST FOLKLORE EDITIONS IN THE BALTIC STATES /Paulius V. Subačius -- SCANIA PROVINCE LAW AND NATION-BUILDING IN SCANDINAVIA /Paula Henrikson -- WELSH LITERARY HISTORY AND THE MAKING OF 'THE MYVYRIAN ARCHAIOLOGY OF WALES' /Mary-Ann Constantine -- JOHN O'DONOVAN'S EDITION OF THE ANNALS OF THE FOUR MASTERS: AN IRISH CLASSIC? /Bernadette Cunningham -- AFTER THE LISBON EARTHQUAKE: REASSEMBLING HISTORY /João Dionísio -- MEDIEVAL HERITAGE IN THE BEGINNINGS OF MODERN CATALAN LITERATURE, 1780-1841 /Magí Sunyer -- THE TROUBADOURS AND THE FRENCH STATE /Philippe Martel -- THE CASE OF BEOWULF /Tom Shippey -- WALTHER VON DER VOGELWEIDE AND EARLY-NINETEENTH-CENTURY LEARNING /Thomas Bein -- HOFFMANN VON FALLERSLEBEN AND DUTCH MEDIEVAL FOLKSONG /Herman Brinkman -- PRIVATE TO PUBLIC: BOOK COLLECTING AND PHILOLOGY IN EARLY-INDEPENDENT BELGIUM (1830-1880) /Jan Pauwels -- STAGES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF DUTCH LITERARY HISTORICISM /Marita Mathijsen -- THE NATION'S CANON AND THE BOOK TRADE /Joep Leerssen.