Nation-Building

Jochen Hippler is a political scientist and peace researcher based at the University of Duisburg-Essen. He is the former Director of the Transnational Institute (TNI) in Amsterdam, and author of Nation-Building (Pluto, 2005) and The Next Threat (Pluto, 1995).

• List of AbbreviationsPrefacePart I: Concepts and Theoretical Analyses of Nation-Building1. Violent Conflicts, Conflict Prevention and Nation-Building – Terminology and Political Concepts by Jochen Hippler2. Globalisation and Nation-Building – Not a Contradiction in Terms by Rainer Tetzlaff3. Democratisation and Nation-Building in ‘Divided Societies’ by Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka4. Shaping the Nation – Ideological Aspects of Nation-Building by Claudia DerichsPart II: Case Studies5. Deconstruction of States as an Opportunity for New Statism? Example of Somalia and Somaliland by Wolfgang Heinrich / Manfred Kulessa6. Afghanistan: Nation-Building in the Shadow of the Warlords and the ‘War on Terror’ by Rangin Dadfar Spanta7. Nation-building by Occupation? – The Case of Iraq by Jochen Hippler8. Between Self-Determination and Multi-Ethnicity – International Actors and Nation-Building in Bosnia and Kosovo by Du_an Relji_9. Nigeria: The Oil State and the Crisis of Nation-Building in Africa by Cyril I. ObiPart III: Nation-Building in Political Practice10. Between Projectitis and the Formation of Countervailing Power – NGOs in Nation-Building Processes by Jeanette Schade11. External Nation-Building vs. Endogenous Nation-Forming – A Development Policy Perspective by Ulrike Hopp / Adolf Kloke-Lesch12. Nation-Building: A Strategy for Regional Stabilisation and Conflict Prevention by Helmut van Edig13. Nation-Building: Possibilities and Limitations of External Military Contributions by Heinz-Uwe Schäfer14. Nation-States for Export? Nation-Building Between Military Intervention, Crisis Prevention and Development Policy by Jochen HipplerNotes on the ContributorsIndex

This is a useful book, basically policy-orientated rather than theoretical. As rebuilding after conflict is likely to be an on-going need, the book contains really useful observations -- International Journal on World Peace