State formation after civil war : local government in national peace transitions

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    • Powell, Derek (Lawyer)

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State formation after civil war : local government in national peace transitions

Derek M. Powell

Routledge, 2017

  • : hbk

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Bibliography: p. [233]-262

Includes index

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内容説明

State formation after civil war offers a new model for studying the formation of the state in a national peace transition as an integrated national phenomenon. Current models of peacebuilding and state building limit that possibility, reproducing a fragmented, selective view of this complex reality. Placing too much emphasis on state building as design they place too little on understanding state formation as unplanned historical process. The dominant focus on national institutions also ignores the role that cities and civic polities have played in constituting the modern state. Mining ideas from many disciplines and evidence from 19 peace processes, including South Africa, the book argues that the starting point for building a systematic theory is to explain a distinct pattern to state formation that can be observed in practice: Despite their conflicts people in fragile societies bargain terms for peaceful coexistence, they make attempts to constitute the right to rule as valid state authority, in circumstances prone to conflict, over which they have imperfect influence, not control. Though the kind of institutions created will differ with context, how rules for state authority are institutionalized follows a consistent basic pattern. That pattern defines state formation in peace transitions as both a unified, if contingent, field of normative practice and an object of comparative study. Where the national-centric models see local government as a matter belonging to policy on decentralization for later in the reconstruction phase, the book uncovers a distinct "local government dimension" to peace transitions: A civic dimension to national conflicts that must be explained; incipient or proto-local authorities that emerge even during civil war, in peace making, after state collapse; the fact that it is common for peace agreements and constitutions to include rules for local authority, for local elections to be held as part of broader democratization, and for laws to be enacted to establish local government as part of peace compacts. The book develops the concept of local peace transition to explain the distinctive constitutive role of this local dimension in peace-making and state formation. This path-breaking book will be of compelling interest to practitioners, scholars and students of comparative constitutional studies, international law, peace building and state building.

目次

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Peacebuilding The Rise of the Post-Cold War Peace and Security Architecture Integrated Transition The 'Peace Map' of a Typical UN Peace Building Operation Fragmentation Not Integration Chapter 3 State Building The Evolution of Post-Conflict State Building Building Denmark Building Leviathan The Core State Functions Model The Grand Bargain model State Building Limits Our View of State Formation Chapter 4 State Formation in National Peace Transitions State Formation as Historical Process Imperfectly Shaped by Human Design The State as an Incipient System of Rules for State Authority National Peace Transition as a Normative Field of State Formation Chapter 5 Cities and State Formation Federalism and Local Government Decentralization and Local Government The Constitutive Role of Local Government in State Formation Incipient Local Authority The Formation of Rules for Local Authority in National Peace Transitions Local Peace Transition Chapter 6 The South African Peace Transition State Racism and the Long Arc of Conflict in South Africa (1910-1993) The Fragile Apartheid State The Peace Transition: Political Negotiations and Constitution-Making (1990-1996) Chapter 7 Civic Conflict Local Government and the Enforcement of Apartheid Civic Struggle as People's War The Civic Dimension of the Conflict Civic Conflict Defined the Pathways for the Local Peace Transition Chapter 8 The Local Peace Transition in South Africa Local Peace Agreements The 'Local Government' Constitution Elected Transitional Local Council Local Peace Transition Chapter 9 Cities and State Formation in National Peace Transitions Bibliography Index

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