Nations, Nation-Building, and Cultural Intervention: A Social Science Perspective

Utz, Raphael

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“…8 In this view, bringing about broader social, cultural and political change is marginalised in favour of top-down projects that enhance the rule of law, (re-)establish key state institutions and strengthen the economy. 9 This neoliberal state building model has been adopted after several military interventions since the end of the Second World War and its advocates argue that it is a rapid remedy for poverty, tyranny, and human rights violations. 10 As several scholars have pointed out, this model has mostly been deployed when a foreign power wants to minimise their post-conflict commitment by super-imposing their own preferred model of governance through the use of armed forces in the aftermath of a crisis.…”

Section: Neo-liberal State Buildingmentioning

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The Failures of Neo‐Liberal State Building in Iraq: Assessing Australia's Post‐Conflict Reconstruction and Development Initiatives

Hassin

Isakhan

2016

Aus J of Politics History

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This article examines Australia's post-conflict reconstruction and development initiatives in Iraq following the intervention of 2003. Overall, it finds that Australia privileged the neoliberal model of post-conflict state building by investing in projects that would enhance the capacity of the new Iraqi state, its key institutions and the private sector towards the imposition of a liberal democracy and a free-market economy. To demonstrate, this article documents the failures of the Australian government's stated aims to "support agriculture" and "support vulnerable populations" via interviews conducted in Iraq with rural farmers and tribal members and those working in, or the beneficiaries of, Iraq's disability sector. It concludes by noting that such failures are not only indicative of the inadequacy of the neo-liberal state building model, but also that these failures point the way forward for future post-conflict reconstruction and development projects which ought to be premised on a genuine and sustained commitment to addressing the needs of those made most vulnerable by war and regime change. Acknowledgement must go to the Deakin University PhD scholarship program and the ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DE120100315), which helped fund the research reported in this article. Also, the authors would like to acknowledge the insightful comments and suggestions of the two anonymous reviewers and the editor of this journal, Ian Ward.

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The Failures of Neo‐Liberal State Building in Iraq: Assessing Australia's Post‐Conflict Reconstruction and Development Initiatives

Hassin

Isakhan

2016

Aus J of Politics History

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“…Nationalists in this regard believed in the antiquity of the nation such as shared culture, language, statehood and territory to become one nation. Whereas in contradiction to the nationalist (Utz, 2005), modernist declares that it has been the rational evolution of nation and nationalism from one social order to another (Gellner, 1995). This article employs Benedict Anderson's (2006) theoretical framework regarding the idea of a nation which proposes four components -imagined, community, limited and sovereignty.…”

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The Crisis of National Identity: Politics and Intersectionality of Identity Markers in Pakistan

Azam

Bilal

2022

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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Pakistan’s national identity has been a contested subject since the conception of the country in 1947. This article examines Pakistan’s struggle to create a coherent national identity, which has led to major identity crises caused by the conflict between the nation’s markers of identity, including religion, ethnicity, language, culture and historical reminiscences. While employing Benedict Anderson’s concept of nationalism, the article explores the perceptions of Pakistanis asking what should be the principal underpinning for defining Pakistani identity. In-depth interviews were used as the main qualitative method for the data collection. In order to conduct in-depth interviews, 47 residents of Rawalpindi, both males and females belonging to diverse sociocultural, political and educational backgrounds were selected through purposive sampling technique to ensure a variety of perspectives. The findings suggest that religion, ethnicity, language and patriotism emerged as major markers of Pakistani identity while the dissension between these indicators persistently exacerbates identity crises and undermines the values of religious and cultural pluralism.

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“…The objective principle of a nation includes territory, language, statehood, and culture and claiming popular association with them would be the second. Contrarily, the proponents of the modernist school have strongly contradicted the nationalist proclamation of the antiquity of the nation (Utz, 2005). Ernest Gellner’s well‐known words of nationalism creating nations and not vice versa clearly contradicts the nationalist claim that nations have always existed and recently attained a prominent place in European psychology.…”

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Migration, Diaspora and Citizenship: A Qualitative Study of the Perceptions of Pakistani Nationals towards the Political Rights of Pakistani Dual Citizens

Chaudhry

Bilal

2020

International Migration

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The dual citizenship has been the subject of intense political debate in Pakistan barring the elected representatives, in parliament, the provincial assemblies and the presidency, from holding dual nationality. The perceptions that holding a foreign citizenship challenges the undiluted loyalty to country further engender question mark over their political participation in country’s affairs. A qualitative study has been carried out in the city of Rawalpindi to explore the stance of Pakistani nationals on such exclusion of Pakistani dual citizens from mainstream politics of Pakistan asking should the individual’s association to the state be an exclusive one? In this paper, in‐depth interviews were conducted with a sample of 40 male and female respondents (22 Pakistani citizens, 18 Pakistani dual citizens) and 6 constitutional experts. The results indicate distrust among Pakistani citizens when considering dual citizens’ right of representation in general elections of Pakistan, stemming from a mistrust of their “split loyalties”.

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Nations, Nation-Building, and Cultural Intervention: A Social Science Perspective

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The Failures of Neo‐Liberal State Building in Iraq: Assessing Australia's Post‐Conflict Reconstruction and Development Initiatives

The Failures of Neo‐Liberal State Building in Iraq: Assessing Australia's Post‐Conflict Reconstruction and Development Initiatives

The Crisis of National Identity: Politics and Intersectionality of Identity Markers in Pakistan

Migration, Diaspora and Citizenship: A Qualitative Study of the Perceptions of Pakistani Nationals towards the Political Rights of Pakistani Dual Citizens

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