State Formation Sample Clauses

State Formation. Versus State-building The relevance and the role of the state have had a come-back in academic literature as well as in policy programmes over the past two decades, driven by the peaceful or violent disintegration, emergence, re- emergence or reconstruction of states that has accompanied the end of the Cold War.24 A broad range of themes has been addressed in that context, including such key questions as whether the state kept any relevance at all in an increasingly globalising world25 and what kinds of ‘public goods’ should be provided by the state as opposed to goods that would be better generated by the private sector, sub-state public collectives, or supra-regional organisations. Much of that literature, however, employs a static treatment of the state concept, implicitly taking the accomplished Weberian state as an immutable reality. A dynamic perspective does exist in the literature discussing the future of states, for example in the context of a gradually integrating European Union or in a globalised economy.26 However, the same dynamic approach is mostly absent from the literature on failed/failing/fragile states, in other words, those that have not yet attained the ‘Weberian minimum’. An exception is found in a relatively new stream of literature depicting developments at play in such states as ‘multi-layered governance’ or ‘hybrid state-building’.27 However, even 24 Pioneer work was already done in the mid-1980s, see Xxxxx, Xxxxx X, et al. (1985), Bringing the State Back In, Cambridge University Press Cambridge 25 See for example Xxxx, Xxxxxxx (1997), Has Globalization Ended the Rise of the Nation State?, Review of International Political Economy, 4, 3, 472-496 26 See Xxxxx, Xxxxxxx (2000), Unpacking the Globalisation Debate: Approaches, Evidence and Data, in Xxx, Xxxxx and Xxxxx, Xxxxx, Demystifying Globalisation Macmillan, London, 21-45, Xxx, Xxxxx, et al. (1999), Globalisation, European Integration and the Persistence of European Social Models, Economic and Social Research Council, Swindon 27 The concepts of ‘multi-layered governance’ and ‘hybrid state-building’ are promoted by the University of Sussex under the direction of Xxxxx Xxxxxxx, the Research Centre of Potsdam, Berlin-based Universities, and the SWP, see for instance Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx and Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx (2009), Building Peace in the Absence of States: Challenging the Discourse on State Failure, Berghof Research Center, Berlin, p.8; see also Xxxxxx (2009); Vlassenroot, Koen and Xxxx...