scholarly journals Institutional dilemmas and challenges in the territorial construction of peace

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (78) ◽  
pp. 785-811
Author(s):  
Dario I. Restrepo Botero ◽  
Camilo A. Peña Galeano
Keyword(s):  
Social Participation ◽  
State Building ◽  
The State ◽  
Institutional Constraints ◽  
Institutional Reforms ◽  
National State ◽  
The Public ◽  
Territorial State ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Colombian Government

Implementation of the peace accords signed by the Colombian government and the leadership of FARC-EP will have strong institutional constraints. The central dilemma of the integration of post-conflict territories to the nation is the following: Will the State be taken to the provinces, or will the State be built from below, through strong social participation and a lasting local institutional creation? Although the agreements signed are part of the centralist tradition of building the national State from the top, they also provide space for significant reforms that would deepen the decentralisation process. To contribute to the public debate on the "territorial and differentiated construction" of peace, this essay reflects on how to operate in the 170 municipalities prioritised for intervention and proposes a series of institutional reforms not foreseen in the agreements, which would facilitate territorial State-building.

On the Aesthetics and Dialogics of Power in the Postcolony

Africa ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikael Karlström
Keyword(s):  
Critical Consciousness ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
The State ◽  
African Politics ◽  
National State ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Relations

ABSTRACTAchille Mbembe's ‘Provisional notes on the postcolony’ has become a canonical contribution to the literature on postcolonial African politics, yet the piece has also proved difficult to digest and build upon. This article focuses on Mbembe's thesis that postcolonial rulers and subjects share an ‘aesthetics of power’, involving ceremonialism and an emphasis on bodily functions and metaphors. It attempts to disentangle Mbembe's insights into such political dispositions from the state-centrism and radical pessimism of his account by examining its analytical indeterminacies and critically re-evaluating his theoretical deployment of Bakhtin. It then develops an alternative Bakhtinian approach to Mbembe's problematic through an analysis of the public staging of political relations in Buganda (Uganda). The standardised ceremony staged by local communities in Buganda to welcome visiting dignitaries—a ceremonial form here designated ‘political hospitality’—projects and enacts legitimate relations of reciprocity and communication between rulers and subjects through performative prestation and the giving and eating of food. It thus lends itself to political ceremonialism and the elaboration of corporeal political metaphors without entailing the pathologies that Mbembe (mis)identifies as intrinsic to such dispositions and discourses. The distorted magnification of this ceremonial pattern by the national state does contribute to the state–society impasse that preoccupies Mbembe. Yet, contrary to Mbembe's bleak vision, such local idioms also provide resources for popular critical consciousness and, thus, some grounds for cautious optimism regarding the postcolonial African political predicament.

scholarly journals Background for the formation and predictors for the implementation of state anti-corruption policy in Ukraine

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 27-37
Author(s):  
Т. А. Крушельницька
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Institutional Constraints ◽  
Management Activity ◽  
Internal Factors ◽  
Building Relationships ◽  
The Public ◽  
Theoretical Substantiation ◽  
State Management ◽  
Common Purpose

Corruption in the public administration of Ukraine, which is a socio-economic phenomenon, is investigated as a plurality of actions of public service officials, which is arising in the process of realization of their authorities and building relationships and connecting with abuse of political or public authority for the sake of personal gain. An analysis of the preconditions for formation and theoretical substantiation of the predictors of the state anti-corruption policy implementation is conducted. Corruption is manifested through such institutional deformations as institutional constraints, legal burdens, distortions of moral and ethical standards of officials, and tolerance of corruption by society.The main preconditions for the formation of anticorruption policy are as follows: the set of external and internal factors of the mechanisms of public and managerial activity, which is burdened by the historical legacy of the administrative-command system of the Soviet era; formation of the outlook of a civil servant, in which the common purpose of occupying a post is a phenomenon like sinecure; a feature of professional state-management activity, which is determined by the state-power authorities of individuals, which are the exclusive privilege and responsibility of officials; the existence of legal preferences that imply inequality of citizens in the access to socially useful benefits that distort understanding of the legal equality of citizens and are the basis of corruption; the presence of effective foreign experience in the implementation of anticorruption policy, based on the cooperation of government institutions with the private sector and the public, is long-term and complex.The main predictors that will become qualitative and quantitative benchmarks for changing the trend in the implementation of anti-corruption policies are reducing the proportion of actions committed to attract corruption leverage, reducing the share of the shadow economy, raising the index of perceived corruption in Ukraine for five years at least to an average of 60-65, the creation of prerequisites for absolute rejection of corruption, complete lack of tolerance to any, even minimal, manifestations of corruption.

scholarly journals The process of weakening of nation-state in the era of NEO-liberalism and the crisis of democracy

2021 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-55
Author(s):  
Svetlana Stamenova
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
State Building ◽  
The State ◽  
Nation State ◽  
National State

The article aims to show that as a result of globalization and NEO-liberal form of governance and ideology, the state was weakened through a complex system of economic, financial, technological and social relations on a global scale. The withdrawal of the state from regulative functions on its territory is a refusal of the state for ideological mobilization of its populace based on nationalism and national identity. During the decline of national identity, the national state moves its role from imposing of cultural and national homogeneity, a characteristic of the earlier stage of nation-state building, to supporting cultural diversity. Crisis of democracy and emergence of post-democracy are considered and the question about possibility of having democracy beyond the nation-state borders.

Prozesse des State Building in Bosnien-Herzegowina

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larissa Vetters
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
State Building ◽  
The State ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
International Organisations ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Transdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
The City ◽  
Policy Prescription

Combining theoretical debates in sociocultural anthropology and public administration scholarship, this study advances a novel heuristic framework for understanding state-building processes in fragmented, post-conflict societies and proposes a new, ethnographically informed methodology. Focusing on interactions between citizens, civil servants and members of international organisations in the city of Mostar, the study reveals how notions of community, the articulation of interests, as well as ideas and practices of statehood emerge, which neither correspond to consociational democratic statehood, as envisioned by the international community, nor to ideas of exclusive ethno-national communities, as propagated by political leaders. Using this ethnography, the author argues for abandoning the state-building paradigm of academic description or policy prescription and identifies new avenues for a reflexive, transdisciplinary approach to studying public administration in contemporary glocal contexts.

scholarly journals Leadership and Post-Conflict State Rebuilding: Iraq after 2003: Case Study: القيادة وإعادة بناء الدولة ما بعد الصراع: العراق بعد العام 2003: دراسة حالة

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Inass Abdulsada Ali, Sana Kadhim Qati, Batool Husain Alwan
Keyword(s):  
State Building ◽  
The State ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Strategic Plans ◽  
Building Process ◽  
Leadership Crisis ◽  
Building Leaders ◽  
Research Leadership ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Analytical Approaches

The Iraqi political and social arena was characterized, subjectively and objectively, by the weakness of leadership building. This has led to a leadership crisis, reflected in the outcome of the quality of the process of rebuilding the state in Iraq. Thus, this building process lacked the simplest requirements and conditions of success. It also suffered from a major and obvious failure, the leadership crisis was one of its causes, as the situation in Iraq has raised conflict leaders, not building leaders, and this confirms the existence of a cultural crisis in the production of conscious, aware leadership and compatible with democratic action. Using the methodology of moving from general to private, based on descriptive and analytical approaches, the paper considered studying the themes of the research, leadership - state building - the role of leadership in state-building, separately and linking each theme at the end of it to the Iraqi context. The weakness of the leadership in Iraq is reflected in a series of sustainable crises that are in need of radical solutions, in accordance with long-term strategic plans, especially in the absence of building visions and predominance of self-interest, along with the impact of social reality on leadership practices, which had an impact on the state-building.

The First British Empire, the Whig Supremacy, and the East India Company

2019 ◽  
pp. 19-49
Author(s):  
James M. Vaughn
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
The State ◽  
East India Company ◽  
The Political ◽  
Public Infrastructure ◽  
The Public ◽  
East Indian ◽  
Territorial State ◽  
Colonial Expansion ◽  
Landed Elite

This chapter discusses the efforts to transform the political economy of England's imperial expansion during the Commonwealth (1649–1653). The architects of the Commonwealth's new imperial political economy were principally drawn from the worlds of unregulated Atlantic trading and East Indian interloping. In alliance with elements of the landed elite and middling social strata in London, these new merchant groupings helped to shift England's centralized territorial state away from an essentially extractive relationship with overseas commercial and colonial expansion—whereby the state attempted to “arbitrarily” raise revenues from such expansion—toward a new relationship in which the state was fully committed to providing the public infrastructure and military protection necessary for the unlimited flow of English trade, shipping, and investment across the globe.

scholarly journals The Reform of Public Administration in Kosovo

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-102
Author(s):  
Milot KRASNIQI ◽  
Laura TAHIRI ◽  
Azem KOLLONI
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
State Building ◽  
Administrative Reform ◽  
The Public ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
New Public ◽  
Building Process ◽  
The Government ◽  
Development Structure ◽  
Conflict Period

The reform of Public Administration in Kosovo is an essential part of the State-Building process. By the administrative reform, the Government aims to modernize the Public Administration, to strengthen its capacities and to make it more efficient and accountable. The post-conflict period in Kosovo from 1999 when the building of the new Public Administration in Kosovo began until the beginning of the administrative reform is a relatively difficult period for Kosovo. The reform of the Public Administration in Kosovo is manifested in two ways: first, in relation to its own development structure and, secondly, in relation to the functions it performs, the effects which are realized and the services provided to Institutions and citizens. The implementation of E-Government in Public Administration in Kosovo enables all efficient categories of Government services, at any time and from any distance, in order to meet daily needs of citizens. E-Government modernizes the administration and enables the creation of an efficient and accountable management at all levels of administration. Through the provision of electronic services to citizens, Kosova will be part of Europe.

scholarly journals State Building in Post Conflict Rwanda: Popular Participation of Citizen in Local Conflict Mitigation

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Innocent Ndahiriwe
Keyword(s):  
Local Level ◽  
State Building ◽  
The State ◽  
Local State ◽  
Legal Authority ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Popular Participation ◽  
State Legitimacy ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Conflict Mitigation

When studying local state building this article addresses the questions how does state led conflict mitigation in post conflict Rwanda work? How is it experienced by the citizens in terms of participation, accountability and local state legitimacy? Theoretically, the study engages with literature on state-building, state society relations and local conflict mitigation. The study’s findings have indicated that the citizens’ contribution to local state-building was still modest due to low motivation among the citizens involved in the conflict mitigation process due to insufficient resources and infrastructure in the conflict mitigation process, despite the fact that the state has granted legal authority. Another important finding is that heterogeneity of conflicts is an important factor in the understanding of local-level conflicts, and especially in relation to local-level state building. Hence, it focuses on the local perspective of state building, which has mainly been studied as a top-down affair.

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