Title: War Making and State Making in Central Africa
Abstract:Continued conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has resulted, not from the failed-state syndrome, but from the continuing struggle to establish viable states on the ruins of repressive colo...Continued conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has resulted, not from the failed-state syndrome, but from the continuing struggle to establish viable states on the ruins of repressive colonial states. Starting with Tilly's account of the process of statemaking in Europe, I argue that while control over resources and the means of violence is a crucially motivating factor, the largely forgotten questions of membership in political communities are at the core of the conflict.Read More
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-03-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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