(Post-)colonial state-building and state failure in East Timor: bringing social conflict back in

2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 547-575 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee Jones
Keyword(s):  
Social Conflict ◽  
State Building ◽  
East Timor ◽  
State Failure ◽  
Colonial State ◽  
Post Colonial

scholarly journals Building a Conservative Welfare State in Botswana

2019 ◽  
pp. 42-67
Author(s):  
Jeremy Seekings
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
State Building ◽  
Cash Transfers ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Colonial State ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Agrarian Society ◽  
The Face ◽  
Drought Relief

Of the African countries that initiated social assistance programmes prior to the 2000s, Botswana stands out in that its policy-making was not the result of settler or immigrant populations. Reforms in Botswana stemmed instead from the imperatives of drought relief in an agrarian society, fuelled by the ruling party’s concern first to establish the authority and legitimacy of the post-colonial state and then to ensure re-election in the face of electoral competition from opposition parties. State-building was made possible also by extraordinary economic growth. The result was a system of social assistance that covered a large part of the population but was also distinctively conservative in terms of the value of benefits, a preference for in-kind over cash transfers, and the prioritization of workfare. Botswana’s path to social assistance prefigured the path followed by many other African countries in the 2000s.

scholarly journals Colonial inclusivity : historical education and state capacity in post-colonial states

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Tiffanesha Williams
Keyword(s):  
State Capacity ◽  
State Building ◽  
The State ◽  
Indigenous Populations ◽  
Causal Mechanism ◽  
Colonial State ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Contemporary State ◽  
Colonial Policy ◽  
Historical Education

The contribution of this dissertation is to show that colonial state building efforts were more successful in the long term when the state invested in education for the colonized population. This argument builds upon recent literature showing that state cooptation of indigenous populations can facilitate state building, but I go further in arguing that colonial policy was not only cooptation, but in some contexts inclusive, leading the population to be vested in and participants in the state. I develop an argument for the influence of the causal mechanism, colonial inclusivity, on contemporary state capacity in post-colonial states. Through a qualitative and quantitative investigation of this mechanism, I find that the investment in and the colonized population's access to quality education during the colonial period reaps positive gains for contemporary state capacity.

‘State failure’ in theory and practice: the idea of the state and the contradictions of state formation

2010 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 229-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
STEIN SUNDSTØL ERIKSEN
Keyword(s):  
State Formation ◽  
The State ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
State Failure ◽  
Actual State ◽  
Weak States ◽  
Colonial State ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
The One

AbstractThis article provides a critique of the discourse of ‘failed states’, and outlines an alternative approach. It is argued that by taking the model of the modern state for granted, and by analysing all states in terms of their degree of correspondence with or deviation from this ideal, this discourse does not help us understand the nature of the states in question, or the processes that lead to strong or weak states. Instead, the idea of the state should be treated as a category of practice and not as a category of analysis. Post-colonial state formation could then be analysed by focusing on the inter-relationship between the idea of the state and actual state practices, and on the ways that states have become linked to domestic society on the one hand and their relations with the external world on the other.

(الإرهاب الدولي والأمن الفكري والروحي ودولة ما بعد الاستعمار: دراسة في نظام القيم في القرآن (القسم الأول (Global Terrorism, Spiritual-Intellectual Security and the Post-Colonial State: A Study on the Qur’anic Valuational System (Part: 1))

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-104
Author(s):  
إبراهيم محمد زين
Keyword(s):  
Just War ◽  
Security System ◽  
Security Systems ◽  
Colonial State ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
System Part ◽  
Global Terrorism

الملخّص يهدف هذا البحث لبيان أن السبيل الناجح لمواجهة الإرهاب الدولي المعاصر الملتبس بدعاوي الجهاد الإسلامي وإحياء دولة الخلافة الإسلامية هو التركز على معاني الأمن الفكري والروحي في الإسلام وهذا الاتجاه في المباحثة يُعيد النظر في طرائق قضايا الجهاد ويميز بين ما هو عقائدي ومرتبط بنظام الإسلام الكلي وبين ما هو من مجال حروب الفتنة والصعلكة.  الكلمات المفتاحيّة: الجهاد، حروب الصعلكة، حروب الفتنة، الأمن الروحي والفكري.              Abstract This study focuses on the most effective way of combating global terrorism that utilizes the banner of Jihad and restoration of the Khilafa system of governance. It should be emphasized that there is a dire need for a new line of investigation concerning the issue of Jihad that pays more attention to both spiritual and intellectual security systems in Islam. This requires a distinction to be made between what is universalistic in the Islamic system and what is particular. In this regard one has to differentiate between acts of just war and those of economic or sedition wars. Keywords: Jihad, economic war, sedition war, spiritual-intellectual security system.

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