From Nation-Building to State-Building (ThirdWorlds) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415413788 ISBN 13: 9780415413787

Publisher: Routledge, 2007

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Mark T. Berger is Visiting Professor of International History at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415413788
• ISBN 13: 9780415413787
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 222
• Editor: Berger Mark T.