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Exogenous state-building: The contradictions of the international project in Afghanistan
Book Chapter | Jan 2011
In the contemporary writing on state-building in post-conflict situations, remarkably little attention is paid to what it takes to build a state. ...
Afghanistan
Taming the war machine: Police, pacification and power i Rio de Janeiro
Master's Thesis | Jan 2016
In this thesis I trace the changes in the exercise of Brazilian state power in Rio’s poor communities, or favelas, through an ethnographic ...
Brazil
The gendered state: A review of some recent studies on women and the state
DERAP Working Paper | Jan 1991
This working paper is an analytical review of four recent studies on "women and the state" or the gendered state. Three of these books include ...
Women, Gender relations, State, Africa, Asia, Europe
The Aid Agencies and the Fragile States Agenda
CMI Working Paper | Jan 2006
In recent years, a consensus appears to have emerged that a variety of problems can be understood in terms of state failure. This paper reviews ...
Fragile states, Peace building, Aid policy
Oil States in the New Middle East. Uprisings and stability
Edited Book | Sep 2016
Oil has been central to regime survival for oil states across the Arabian Peninsula and has been at the heart of their attempts to defuse the ...
Kuwait
The Politics of the Headscarf in the United States
Book | Jan 2018
The Politics of the Headscarf in the United States investigates the social and political effects of the practice of Muslim-American women wearing ...
Violence against women in the context of urban poverty in Angola
CMI Brief | Oct 2016
Violence against women is widespread in Angola. This brief presents the main findings in a recent study of how violence against women is playing ...
women, violence, poverty, Angola, Luanda
Corruption and state-backed debts in Mozambique: What can external actors do?
U4 Issue | Nov 2016
The average annual cost of corruption to Mozambique was recently estimated to be up to USD 4.9 billion for the period 2004-2014. Some analysts ...
international drivers of corruption, illicit financial flows, Mozambique
Enforcement of water rights
CMI Brief | May 2016
In 2010, a UN Resolution explicitly recognized the human right to water and sanitation (HRtWS). But has this international recognition improved ...
natural resources, water, human rights, Costa Rica, South Africa, Brazil, Ethiopia, India, Peru, Zambia
Land Rights, Environmental Protection and Inclusive Development within India's Federal System
Project | Jan 2013 - Jun 2017
The main goal of the research project is to understand the consequences of the legal regime India has adopted to protect its indigenous peoples ...
India
Palestinian State-formation: Prospects and Challenges. Report from a Symposium at Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway 24-25 May 2004
CMI Report | Jan 2004
The CMI - Muwatin symposium, held in Bergen on 24-25 May 2004, addressed both internal and external challenges to Palestinian state-formation. ...
State formation, Palestine
Development planning and the importance of Democratic Institutions in Botswana
CMI Report | Jan 1993
This study takes an extended look at Botswana, a country which is found to depart from the common pattern of African states and therefore may ...
Democracy, Development planning, Economic policy, Botswana
State-local community games of forest land appropriation
CMI Working Paper | Jan 1997
This paper explores possible strategic interactions between the state and local community in games of tropical forest land appropriation. Two ...
Tax Reform and State Building in a Globalized World
Book Chapter | Jan 2008
How far has the recent global wave of tax reform contributed to state building in poorer countries? This chapter concludes that ...
Taxation, tax reform, state building, globalisation, Developing countries
Taxation and State Building in Developing Countries
Edited Book | Jan 2008
Developing countries face new and pressing challenges as they strive to build more effective and accountable public institutions. These difficulties ...
Taxation, state building, accountability, developing countries, Chile, China, Ghana, Mauritius, Poland, Russia, Tanzania, Uganda
A Conflict Does Not Rot: State and Civil Society Responses to Civil War Offences in Mozambique
Journal Article | Jun 2013
This article analyses how state and non-state actors have tried to address the human rights violations and war crimes committed during the civil ...
Civil War, Gamba Spirits, Gorongosa, Human Rights, Local Justice, Mozambique, Transitional Justice, Mozambique
Introduction: Performing the State
Journal Article | Jul 2016
Seeking to expand the domain of the political beyond normative understandings of the state, the articles in this special edition examine the ...
Performance, governance, religion, militia, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Thailand, Myanmar, Southeast Asia
Colonial legacy, state building and the salience of ethnicity in Sub-Saharan Africa
Journal Article | Apr 2019
African colonial history suggests that British colonial rule may have undermined state centralisation due to legacies of ethnic segregation ...
Colonial legacy, development, ethnicity, state capacity, Sub-Saharan Africa
Tax reform and state building in a globalized world
Book Chapter | May 2015
How far has the recent global wave of tax reform contributed to state building in poorer countries? This chapter concludes that ...
Tax, tax reform, globalisation, state building, developing countries
Building tax systems in fragile states. Challenges, achievements and policy recommendations
CMI Report | Mar 2018
The purpose of this study is to systematise and analyse existing knowledge on taxation in fragile states. Efforts to support domestic revenue ...
Fragile states, state building, domestic revenue mobilisation, taxation, capacity building, development assistance