Mark T. Berger is Visiting Professor of International History at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
This book examines the history of nation-building during the era of decolonization and the Cold War, and on the more recent post-Cold War and post-9/11 pursuit of nation-building in what have become known as `collapsed´ or `failed´ states.
In the post-Cold War and post-9/11 era nation-building, or what is increasingly termed state-building, has taken on renewed salience, making it more important than ever to set the idea and practice of nation-building in historical perspective. Focusing on both historical and contemporary examples, the contributors explore a number of important themes that relate to `successful´ and `unsuccessful´ nation-building efforts from South Vietnam in the 1950s and 1960s to East Timor, Afghanistan and Iraq in the twenty-first century.
From Nation-Building to State-Building was previously published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly and will be of interest to students and scholars of comparative politics and peace studies.
1. From nation-building to state-building: The geopolitics of development, the nation-state system and the changing global order 2. Redirecting the revolution? The USA and the failure of nation-building in South Vietnam 3. Congo: From state collapseto 'absolutism', to state failure 4. Nation-building in the land of eternal counter-insurgency: Guatemala and the contradictions of the alliance for progress 5. From national development to 'growth with equity': Nation-building in Chile, 1950 - 2000 6. The national or the social? problems of nation-building in post-world war II Philippines 7. El Salvador: State-building before and after democratisation, 1980 - 95 8. Haiti: The saturnalia of emancipation and the vicissitudes of predatory rule 9. East Timor's double life: Smells like Westphalian spirit 10. Papua New Guinea at thirty: Late decolonisation and the political economy of nation-building 11. Peace building and state-building in Afghanistan: Constructing sovereignty for whose security? 12. Iraq: The contradictions of exogenous state-building in historical perspective 13. Beyond state-building: Global governance and the crisis of the nation-state system in the 21st century
Formerly published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly, it examines the history of nation-building during decolonization and the Cold War, and the post-Cold War and post-9/11 pursuit of nation-building in `collapsed´ or `failed´ states.
Focusing on both historical and contemporary examples, this book explores a number of important themes that relate to 'successful' and 'unsuccessful' nation-building efforts from South Vietnam in the 1950s and 1960s to East Timor, Afghanistan and Iraq in the 21st century. It is for students and scholars of comparative politics and peace studies.
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Mark T. Berger is Visiting Professor of International History at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
