Building The Nation

Author : Christopher Henry Muwanga Barlow
Publisher : Fountain Books
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Uganda
ISBN : UCSC:32106018616414

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Building the Nation and Other Poems by Christopher Henry Muwanga Barlow Pdf

Crafted with rare wit and humour, the poems in this book deal with a diverse range of themes such as political opportunism and sycophancy, war, the baffling paradox of god, the enchanting richness and beauty of nature, and the fascinating yet sadly agonising and intractable nature of love. Spanning decades of experience and deep reflection by a veteran poet, this collection offers fresh and enriching insights into subjects that are of interest and concern to us all.

Author : John A. Hall,Ove Korsgaard,Ove Kaj Pedersen
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773544055

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Building the Nation by John A. Hall,Ove Korsgaard,Ove Kaj Pedersen Pdf

How Denmark became Denmark through one of the most successful nation building processes in history.

Author : Andreas Wimmer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780691177380

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Nation Building by Andreas Wimmer Pdf

A new and comprehensive look at the reasons behind successful or failed nation building Nation Building presents bold new answers to an age-old question. Why is national integration achieved in some diverse countries, while others are destabilized by political inequality between ethnic groups, contentious politics, or even separatism and ethnic war? Traversing centuries and continents from early nineteenth-century Europe and Asia to Africa from the turn of the twenty-first century to today, Andreas Wimmer delves into the slow-moving forces that encourage political alliances to stretch across ethnic divides and build national unity. Using datasets that cover the entire world and three pairs of case studies, Wimmer’s theory of nation building focuses on slow-moving, generational processes: the spread of civil society organizations, linguistic assimilation, and the states’ capacity to provide public goods. Wimmer contrasts Switzerland and Belgium to demonstrate how the early development of voluntary organizations enhanced nation building; he examines Botswana and Somalia to illustrate how providing public goods can bring diverse political constituencies together; and he shows that the differences between China and Russia indicate how a shared linguistic space may help build political alliances across ethnic boundaries. Wimmer then reveals, based on the statistical analysis of large-scale datasets, that these mechanisms are at work around the world and explain nation building better than competing arguments such as democratic governance or colonial legacies. He also shows that when political alliances crosscut ethnic divides and when most ethnic communities are represented at the highest levels of government, the general populace will identify with the nation and its symbols, further deepening national political integration. Offering a long-term historical perspective and global outlook, Nation Building sheds important new light on the challenges of political integration in diverse countries.

Author : Eric D. Duke
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813063720

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Building a Nation by Eric D. Duke Pdf

Caribbean Studies Association Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Award - Honorable Mention The initial push for a federation among British Caribbean colonies might have originated among colonial officials and white elites, but the banner for federation was quickly picked up by Afro-Caribbean activists who saw in the possibility of a united West Indian nation a means of securing political power and more. In Building a Nation, Eric Duke moves beyond the narrow view of federation as only relevant to Caribbean and British imperial histories. By examining support for federation among many Afro-Caribbean and other black activists in and out of the West Indies, Duke convincingly expands and connects the movement's history squarely into the wider history of political and social activism in the early to mid-twentieth century black diaspora. Exploring the relationships between the pursuit of Caribbean federation and black diaspora politics, Duke convincingly posits that federation was more than a regional endeavor; it was a diasporic, black nation-building undertaking--with broad support in diaspora centers such as Harlem and London--deeply immersed in ideas of racial unity, racial uplift, and black self-determination. A volume in this series New World Diasporas, edited by Kevin A. Yelvington

Author : Keith W. Mines
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781640122826

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Why Nation-Building Matters by Keith W. Mines Pdf

Why Nation-Building Matters establishes a framework for building security forces, economic development, and political consolidation that blends soft and hard power into a deployable and effective package.

Author : Henry Gannett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : United States
ISBN : NYPL:33433081764494

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The Building of a Nation by Henry Gannett Pdf

Author : Heather S. Gregg
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781640121386

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Building the Nation by Heather S. Gregg Pdf

Building the Nation draws from foreign-policy reports and interviews with U.S. military officers to investigate recent U.S.-led efforts to "nation-build" in Iraq and Afghanistan. Heather Selma Gregg argues that efforts to nation-build in both countries focused more on what should be called state-building, or how to establish a government, rule of law, security forces, and a viable economy. Considerably less attention was paid to what might truly be called nation-building--the process of developing a sense of shared identity, purpose, and destiny among a population within a state's borders and popular support for the state and its government. According to Gregg, efforts to stabilize states in the modern world require two key factors largely overlooked in Iraq and Afghanistan: popular involvement in the process of rebuilding the state that gives the population ownership of the process and its results and efforts to foster and strengthen national unity. Gregg offers a hypothetical look at how the United States and its allies could have used a population-centric approach to build viable states in Iraq and Afghanistan, focusing on initiatives that would have given the population buy-in and agency. Moving forward, Gregg proposes a six-step program for state and nation-building in the twenty-first century, stressing that these efforts are as much about how state-building is done as they are about specific goals or programs.

Author : Mark T. Berger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317997221

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From Nation-Building to State-Building by Mark T. Berger Pdf

This book examines the history of nation-building during the era of decolonization and the Cold War, and on the more recent post-Cold War and post-9/11 pursuit of nation-building in what have become known as ‘collapsed’ or ‘failed’ states. In the post-Cold War and post-9/11 era nation-building, or what is increasingly termed state-building, has taken on renewed salience, making it more important than ever to set the idea and practice of nation-building in historical perspective. Focusing on both historical and contemporary examples, the contributors explore a number of important themes that relate to ‘successful’ and ‘unsuccessful’ nation-building efforts from South Vietnam in the 1950s and 1960s to East Timor, Afghanistan and Iraq in the twenty-first century. From Nation-Building to State-Building was previously published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly and will be of interest to students and scholars of comparative politics and peace studies.

Author : Rekgotsofetse Chikane
Publisher : Pan Macmillan South africa
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781770105911

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Breaking a Rainbow, Building a Nation by Rekgotsofetse Chikane Pdf

Breaking a Rainbow, Building a Nation is a first-hand account of the university protests that gripped South Africa between 2015 and 2017, widely better known as the #FeesMustFall. Chikane outlines the nature of student politics in the country before, during and after the emergence of #MustFall politics, exploring the political dynamics that informed and drove the student protests, and the effect that these #MustFall movements have had on the nature of youth politics in the country. Chikane looks at how the current nature of youth politics is different from previous youth upheavals that have defined South Africa, specifically due to the fact that the protests were being led by so-called coconuts, who are part of the black elite. Breaking a Rainbow, Building a Nation poses the provocative question, can coconuts be trusted with the revolution?

Author : Dominic Thomas
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002-11-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 025310954X

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Nation-Building, Propaganda, and Literature in Francophone Africa by Dominic Thomas Pdf

What characterizes the relationship between literature and the state? Should literature serve the needs of the state by constructing national consciousness, espousing state propaganda, and molding good citizens? Or should it be dedicated to a different kind of creative social endeavor? In this important book about literature and the politics of nation-building, Dominic Thomas assesses the contributions of Francophone African writers whose works have played a key role in the recent transition to democracy in the Congo. Exploring the works of Sony Labou Tansi, Henri Lopes, and Emmanuel Dongala, among others, Thomas highlights writers intimately involved with government and politics -- whether in support of the state's vision or with the intention of articulating a more open view of citizens and society. Focusing on themes such as collaboration, reconciliation, identity, history, and memory, Nation-Building, Propaganda, and Literature in Francophone Africa elaborates a broader understanding of the circumstances of African colonization, modern African nation-state formation, and the complex cultural dynamics at work in Africa since independence.

Author : Harris Mylonas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139619813

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The Politics of Nation-Building by Harris Mylonas Pdf

What drives a state's choice to assimilate, accommodate or exclude ethnic groups within its territory? In this innovative work on the international politics of nation-building, Harris Mylonas argues that a state's nation-building policies toward non-core groups - individuals perceived as an ethnic group by the ruling elite of a state - are influenced by both its foreign policy goals and its relations with the external patrons of these groups. Through a detailed study of the Balkans, Mylonas shows that how a state treats a non-core group within its own borders is determined largely by whether the state's foreign policy is revisionist or cleaves to the international status quo, and whether it is allied or in rivalry with that group's external patrons. Mylonas injects international politics into the study of nation-building, building a bridge between international relations and the comparative politics of ethnicity and nationalism.

Author : J. Megan Greene
Publisher : Harvard East Asian Monographs
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0674278313

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Building a Nation at War by J. Megan Greene Pdf

Building a Nation at War argues that the Chinese Nationalist government's retreat inland during the Sino-Japanese War, its consequent need for inland resources, and its participation in new relationships with the United States led to fundamental changes in how the Nationalists engaged with science and technology as tools to promote development.

Author : Reinhard Bendix
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0520027612

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Nation-building and Citizenship by Reinhard Bendix Pdf

Examines how states and civil societies interact in their formation of a new political community, focusing on authority patterns and relations established between individuals and states during nation- building. For students and scholars of political science, sociology, history, and comparative studies. Originally published in 1964 by John Wiley and Sons, with a 1977 enlarged edition published by University of California Press, this latest enlarged edition includes an introduction by the author's son. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Vassiliki Theodorou,Despina Karakatsani
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9789633862797

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Strengthening Young Bodies, Building the Nation by Vassiliki Theodorou,Despina Karakatsani Pdf

Stimulated by the development of childhood studies and the social history of medicine, this book lays out the historical circumstances that led to the medicalization of childhood in Greece from the end of the nineteenth century until World War Two. For this span of fifty years, the authors explore how the national question was bound up with concerns raised about the health of children. They also investigate the various connotations of child health and maternity care in the context of liberal and authoritarian governments, as well as the wider social and cultural changes that took place in this period. Drawing on a wide array of primary and secondary sources, the authors look into the role of doctors, social thinkers and civil servants in the shaping of health policy; the impact of the medical paradigm from Western Europe; and the gradual professionalization of health care in Greece. Theodorou and Karakatsani describe an increasing intervention of the state in the medical supervision of childhood, the relationship between the philanthropic organizations and the state, as well as the impact of the national rivalries and wars on efforts to improve child health.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781621968719

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Music Makes the Nation by Anonim Pdf