Nation-building as necessary effort in fragile states / René Grotenhuis. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2016
Content
Prologue: The urgency of reality
1 Struggling in the world of nation-states
2 Nation and state
The Montevideo Convention: The defined state
The undefined nation
Nation and state intertwined
Does the state presuppose a nation?
Does the nation presuppose a state?
War and the making of the nation-state
An ideal model for the nation-state?
The nation-state in a globalizing world
The changing map of the world
The nation-state: A coveted object
The absent state
Vignette
From commanders to governors in South Sudan
3 Fragility: A donor’s concept but not far from reality
Fragility: Definitions and reality
A conceptual model for fragility
Fragility: Social networks, governments and hybrid political order?
The New Deal for Engagement in Fragile States
Vignette
Blueprints, checklists and formats: Disarmament in the DRC
4 Nation-building: Sovereignty and citizenship
The people as sovereign
Republican citizenship: In-between individual and community
Republican citizenship in fragile states
Citizenship as solid base for diversity
Who is the citizen?
Citizenship under pressure in a globalizing world
Vignette
Protecting the role of local organizations in Afghanistan
5 Nation-building and state-building and the challenge of fragility
Nation-building and state-building in international political discourse
The intertwined nature of nation-building and state-building
Nation-building and state-building: Trust as the linking pin
Why is state-building not good enough in fragile contexts?
Nation-building in fragile states: History never repeats itself
Vignette
Transitional Justice in Afghanistan
6 Peacemaking as the preliminary step towards nation-building and state-building
7 The Scylla and Charybdis of nation-building
The Scylla of nation-building: Identity as exclusion
The Charybdis of nation-building: Silencing identity
Moderate patriotism
Vignette
NGOs blamed as allies of opposition in Burundi
8 Nation-building: Identity and identification, process and content
The dangerous romanticism of homogeneous nation-states
From identity to identification
Identification and fragility
Heterogeneity in fragile states
Nationhood and minorities
Nation-building as nation-destroying
National identity as moving target
Vignette
Imagination of reality in Gaza
9 National identity: A model and its content
National identity: The model of Shulman
Is Shulman’s model applicable to fragile nation-states?
A modified model for fragile nation-states
Nationhood and civic identity
Nationhood and religious identity
Nationhood and cultural identity
Nationhood and ethnicity
From open to ascribed identity
Case
Bangsamoro nation
10 A program for nation-building in fragile states
Content: The elements that make up national identity
Process: Nation-building is a learning process
Institutions: Nation-building requires an institutional setup
Actors: Nation-building is a national endeavor
The possibility of nation-building for different modes of state fragility
Vignette
Legitimacy for development organizations in Uruzgan
Case
Rwanda: Nation-building in mildly authoritarian regimes
Epilogue: The challenges of fragility – and the beginning of an answer
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Index