Right-sizing the State
The Politics of Moving Borders
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 22 November 2001
- ISBN 9780199244904
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages444 pages
- Size 244x165x28 mm
- Weight 770 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 2 maps 0
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Short description:
A leading group of scholars examine the circumstances under which central states might change their shape in responding to ethnic upheavals and regionalist demands. A systematic approach is applied to a country-by-country approach examining in turn most of the key areas of state boundary disputes in the contemporary world.
MoreLong description:
Strategic decisions to reduce the size, scope, or ambitions of organizations - including states - in order to enhance future prospects, are among the most difficult and least well-understood choices made in collective life. This volume makes a bold effort to identify the conditions in which less really is more. Each contributor to the volume analyzes 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 and the former Soviet Union, Iraq, and India. An impressive array of experts assess strategies that go against the grain, strategies to 'righsize' and even 'downsize' states by changing their external and internal borders. Typically this means opposing prevailing prejudices against partition and 'seraratist' solutions as well as paying high political costs in the short run for more manageable political problems in the long run. Understanding the conditions under which such strategies can be entertained and successfully implemented is as difficult, and as important, as making this kind of option available to beleaguered states in a complex and rapidly changing world.
The empirical part of the volume offers a fascinating tour d'horizon of actual, potential and failed examples of "right-sizing" throughout the world.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
The Elements of Right-Sizing and Right-Peopling the State
Thresholds of Opportunity and Barriers to Change in the Right-sizing of States
From Reshaping to Resizing a Failing State? The Case of the Congo/Zaire
Resizing and Reshaping the State: India from Partition to the Present
The Negotiable State: Borders and Power-Struggles in Pakistan
Reifying Boundaries, Fetishising the Nation: Soviet Legacies and Elite legitimacy in Post-Soviet States
Turkey's Kurdish Problem: Borders, Identity and Hegemony
Manufacturing Identity and Managing Kurds in Iraq
Indigestible Lands? Comparing the Fates of Western Sahara and East Timor
Right-Sizing Over the Jordan: The Politics of Down-Sizing Borders
'Right-Sizing' or 'Right-Shaping'? Politics, Ethnicity and Territory in Plural Societies
Conclusion: Right-Sizing and the Alignment of States and Collective Identities
