Statebuilding and State Formation in the Western Pacific - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0367028379 ISBN 13 : 9780367028374

Editeur : Routledge, 2018

Synopsis

This book provides a rigorous and cross-disciplinary analysis of this Melanesian nation at a critical juncture in its post-colonial and post-conflict history, with contributions from leading scholars of Solomon Islands. The notion of 'transition' as used to describe the recent drawdown of the decade-long Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) provides a departure point for considering other transformations - social, political and economic -under way in the archipelagic nation. Organised around a central tension between change and continuity, two of the book's key themes are the contested narratives of changing state-society relations and the changing social relations around land and natural resources engendered by ongoing processes of globalisation and urbanisation. Drawing heuristically on RAMSI's genesis in the 'state- building moment' that dominated international relations during the first decade of this century, the book also examines the critical distinction between 'state-building' and 'state formation' in the Solomon Islands context. It engages with global scholarly and policy debates on issues such as peacebuilding, state-building, legal pluralism, hybrid governance, globalisation, urbanisation and the governance of natural resources. These themes resonate well beyond Solomon Islands and Melanesia, and the book will be of interest to a wide range of students, scholars and development practitioners. This book was previously published as a special issue of The Journal of Pacific History.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Matthew Allen is a Fellow at The Australian National University. A human geographer who has worked extensively across post-colonial Melanesia, he is the author of Greed and Grievance: Ex-militants' perspectives on the Conflict in Solomon Islands (2013).

Sinclair Dinnen is a Senior Fellow at The Australian National University and a socio-legal scholar with longstanding experience as a researcher and policy adviser in the Melanesia region.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0367028379
• ISBN 13: 9780367028374
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 152
• Éditeur: Allen Matthew, Dinnen Sinclair
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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