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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Rightsizing the state. Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2001 (DLC) 2001031167 (OCoLC)46732327 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Brendan O'Leary; Ian Lustick; Thomas M Callaghy |
ISBN: | 9780191529610 0191529613 9780191600050 0191600059 |
OCLC Number: | 302361533 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 429 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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. |
Responsibility: | edited by Brendan O'Leary, Ian S. Lustick, and Thomas Callaghy. |
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Abstract:
This volume examines how 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 most contemporary state boundary disputes.
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