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Right-sizing the state : the politics of moving borders / edited by Brendan O'Leary, Ian S. Lustick, Thomas Callaghy.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Boundaries.
- Territory, National.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 429 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Other Title:
- Rightsizing the state
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
- Summary:
- Strategic decisions to reduce the size, scope, or ambitions of organizations--including states--to enhance future prospects are among the most difficult and least understood conclusions. This volume identifies the conditions in which less really is more, analyzing the possibilities for institutional redesign--including state contraction--for responding effectively to destabilizing and often violence-laden conflicts. Among the countries discussed in detail are Turkey, Pakistan, Morocco, Congo, Jordan, Indonesia, Russia, the former Soviet Union, Iraq, and India.
- Contents:
- The elements of right-sizing and right-peopling the state / Brendan O'Leary
- Thresholds of opportunity and barriers to change in the right-sizing of states / Ian S. Lustick
- From reshaping to resizing a failing state? The case of the Congo/Zaïre / Thomas M. Callaghy
- Resizing and reshaping the state: India from partition to the present / Gurharpal Singh
- The negotiable state: borders and power-struggles in Pakistan / Vali Nasr
- Reifying boundaries, fetishizing the nation: Soviet legacies and élite legitimacy in the post-Soviet states / Alexander J. Motyl
- Turkey's Kurdish problem: borders, identity, and hegemony / Ümit Cizre
- Manufacturing identity and managing Kurds in Iraq / Denise Natali
- Indigestible lands? Comparing the fates of western Sahara and East Timor / Stephen Zunes
- Right-sizing over the Jordan: the politics of down-sizing borders / Marc Lynch
- 'Right-sizing' or 'right-shaping'? Politics, ethnicity, and territory in plural states / Oren Yiftachel
- Conclusion: right-sizing and the alignment of states and collective identities / Ian S. Lustick.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0199244901
- OCLC:
- 46732327
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