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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- Introduction -- Explaining separatism -- Grievance versus greed -- Ethno-nationalistexplanations -- Understanding the causes of separatism in a South Asian context -- Conclusion -- 2 Genesis of conflict -- Introduction -- The states of South Asia and their pre-modern antecedents -- Mobilization against the parent state -- Economic under-development -- Ethnic dilution and population demographics -- Education, political consciousness and external interference

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Origins of the 'development' paradigm -- Varied development experiences -- Measuring development? -- The failure of development -- About this book -- 1 What is Development? -- Traditional meanings of development -- Contemporary meanings of development -- Applying development definitions -- Conclusion -- 2 Reassessing Development Theory -- The global context for development ideas and policies -- Theories of modernization -- The challenge of dependency theory -- The Asian miracle: challenges for modernization and dependency approaches -- The rise of neoliberalism: globalization and development theory -- The global financial crisis and emerging challenges to neoliberalism -- 3 The Economics of Development -- The main drivers of growth: competing schools of thought -- Policies to stimulate growth -- Growth and development in a globalizing world: towards a new paradigm? -- 4 Continuing Crises: The Developing World and the Global Financial Crisis -- Global and regional crises in historical context: learning the lessons -- How has the risk of crisis increased in recent years? -- Seeking to understand the causes of crises: the return of Marx, Keynes and Minsky -- Other explanations for the GFC and ideas to prevent a recurrence -- Asia and the global financial crisis -- Africa and the global financial crisis -- Latin America and the global financial crisis -- The GFC and the future of globalization and North-South relations -- 5 Politics and Governance -- The origins of developing countries -- Political identity -- The state and the nation -- Militaries in politics -- Democracy, democratization and regime change -- Regime change -- The state, society and democratization -- State institutions -- Governance -- Conclusion -- 6 Aid and Development -- The purpose of aid.

State Building in Boom Times maintains that coalitional politics accounts for why resource booms yield divergent state building. Countries ruled by export-oriented coalitions expand state capacity amid commodity booms. But when exporters are politically marginalized, ruling coalitions prey upon export wealth, to the detriment of state capacity.

This book is an examination of particular African countries that are in the post-conflict phase. They have experienced horrific civil wars that left thousands of their citizens internally displaced or as refugees in surrounding countries, and some fled to countries in the global north. The countries examined in the book are in the process of rebuilding institutions of governance that include judicial, legislative, and executive branches. In sum, the countries under review in the book are in the process of harness

Drawing on a unique mix of international academic and field expert work, this book presents and analyses contemporary state-building efforts. It offers lessons for the future of state-building relevant to both practitioners and the academic community.

In the wake of the Iraq War, what lies ahead for the United Nations as peacekeeper and nation-builder? What lessons were learnt in Afghanistan and Iraq, what reforms could they entail, how do UN efforts fare as compared with those of the United States, and what will be, in the next decade, the most pressing challenges confronting the Organization? Will the United Nations, in its current form and within the new global power structure, be able to remain relevant, retain its ideals and still respond meaningfully to mounting international tensions? These were some of the questions tackled by a group of eminent scholars and practitioners, many directly and personally involved with multilateral or unilateral peace operations. In addition to the larger issues of peacekeeping and peace-building and the recommendations for historical reform suggested by the 'UN High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change' in December 2004, the group debated some of the most complex recent interventions, including Afghanistan, East Timor and Iraq. This volume, which contains all the presentations and discussions of the UNITAR/IPS Conference on "United Nations as a Peacekeeper and Nation-Builder: Continuity and Change - What Lies Ahead?" will be a valuable addition to the collections of experts or laypersons interested in the future role of the United Nations in general and in peacekeeping and post-conflict state-building in particular

This book addresses the question, 'Why has UN state-building so consistently failed to meet its objectives?'. It proposes an explanation based on the application of complexity theory to UN interventions in South Sudan and DRC, where the UN has been tasked to implement massive stabilization and state-building missions.

Intro -- Foreword -- Contents -- List of Figures -- 1 Stabilization and Reconstruction -- Introduction -- We Don't Do Nation Building! -- Why Reconstruction? -- Analytic Method -- 2 The Cross-Cutting Principles -- Introduction -- Cross-Cutting Principles: Conditions and Approaches -- Assessment -- 3 Stabilization and Reconstruction End States -- Introduction -- Safe and Secure Environment -- Assessment -- Rule of Law -- Assessment -- Sustainable Economy -- Assessment -- Stable Governance -- Assessment -- Social Well-Being Introduction -- Assessment -- 4 Observations and Recommendations for Future Stabilization -- Introduction -- Lack of Planning -- "Woefully Under-Resourced" -- Voter Fatigue -- The Civil-Military Dilemma and the Structure of Governance -- Governance -- Home Rule of Law -- Embrace Stabilization as a Mission -- Guiding Principles: Proposed Revision and Application -- Framework for Developing Stabilization Task List and Evaluation Tool -- Address Elite Bargaining as Part of Political Primacy -- Conclusion -- Annex I: Approaches, Conditions, and End States for Stabilization and Reconstruction from the Guiding Principles -- Index.

This work examines how the economic survival strategies of former fighters in Liberia can help explain the trajectories of war-to-peace transitions.