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084058
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If crime corrupts the credibility of paramilitary to political organizations, at what stage in the process of transition from paramilitary to parliamentary organization do violence and corruption become increasingly objectionable? What mechanisms institute credible organizational change?
Moreover, what mechanisms are most likely to impede organizational transformation and determine the degree to which criminal-military elements are successfully pacified by the political process? This paper addresses the protagonists' problem of curtailing criminality, clientelism, corruption and long standing predation in protracted peace processes. The findings suggest that the nature of corruption can determine the duration of the transition.
The prevalence of criminality clientelism, patronage, or predation is determined by the organizational structure of the group. The more 'monolithic', cohesive and integrated the rebel-to-political group, the more seamless the evolution from paramilitary-to-parliamentary.
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084057
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This article builds on the work of scholars who have explored the links between poverty reduction and sustainable peace. It examines the recent shift by bilateral and multilateral donors to 'pro-poor' development strategies in fragile states by considering the case of Haiti, a country with high levels of poverty and intense donor interest. The paper examines whether recent insights on poverty reduction are driving the current economic development strategy in Haiti. It does so by comparing the strategies and programs advanced during the first round of peacebuilding efforts (1994-2000), prior to donors embracing the poverty reduction imperative, with current efforts (2004-07), which are ostensibly aimed at poverty reduction.
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084056
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2008.
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Building a durable peace by means of external nationbuilding can be a cumbersome and uncertain exercise. The outcome often hinges on the attitudes of the local population and elites and their willingness to endorse the process. This article scrutinises the attitudes of the recipient population and political elites towards different aspects of the external nationbuilding in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It addresses the problems of state identity, reconciliation and democratisation in an externally administered nationbuilding endeavour. The empirical findings from Bosnia and Herzegovina are used to illustrate the degree to which external nationbuilding can lay the infrastructure for a durable peace in the aftermath of ethnic war.
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084053
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084059
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084054
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2008.
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This article explores the effects of the contemporary politics of statebuilding on the non-western state. The main argument is that the corresponding strategies of external institution building and/or the international substitution of state functions entail contradictions that inherently limit the chances of an external strengthening of stateness. Statebuilding is constrained, first, by the statebuilders' own social logics limiting their scope and, second, by the incapacity of statebuilding practices to generate the local legitimacy necessary for stable political rule. Despite these limits, statebuilding discourses and practices nonetheless have a strong influence on the non-western state. The state-in-society conception applied to study these effects suggests that statebuilding results in a simultaneous internationalisation and informalisation of the non-western state, i.e., in its enduring determination by international agencies and its constant bending, circumvention and contestation by informal local practices.
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084055
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2008.
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is the declared objective of international donors in many African contexts and elsewhere. Uganda, where a civil war ended 20 years ago, can serve as a showcase in order to see what the outcome of internationalised post-war policies is. Analysing the dynamics around the state's armed forces and the problems of taxation, this article argues that the outcome is not statebuilding but the internationalisation of rule. This constellation, nowadays euphemistically called 'global governance', may show the future of other current post-war interventions.
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