Nation-Building as Necessary Effort in Fragile States - Hardcover

Grotenhuis, René

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9462982198 ISBN 13: 9789462982192

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Nation-building [-]fragile states[-](layered) identity[-]institutions[-]culture[-]

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Policies intended to bring stability to fragile states tend to focus almost exclusively on building institutions and systems to get governance right. Simply building the state is often seen as sufficient for making it stable and legitimate. But policies like these, René Grotenhuis shows in this book, ignore the question of what makes people belong to a nation-state, arguing that issues of identity, culture, and religion are crucial to creating the sense of belonging and social cohesion that a stable nation-state requires.

About the Author:

"http://www.uu.nl/staff/RBMGrotenhuis/0" target="_blank">Ren Grotenhuis iis the former Executive Director of Cordaid, associate researcher at Utrecht University, and chairman of the Society for International Development in the Netherlands. He has published both in Dutch and English about Development cooperation and international relations.

About this edition

• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 9462982198
• ISBN 13: 9789462982192
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 200