The possibility of state formation and the limitations of liberal international state-building

Jüde, Johannes

doi:10.1057/s41268-018-0139-z

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“…They prevailed both in the inner Eritrean civil war and against the Ethiopian regime that was externally sponsored by the Soviet Union. To accomplish that, the insurgents built a massive organization supporting their war machinery and developed from “small factions of guerrilla fighters to an autonomous state-like organization” (Jüde, 2020: 99–103; Pool, 2001: 59).…”

Section: Victorious Armed Movements and The Formative Effects Of Warmentioning

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“…In contrast to SWAPO and the SNM, it could neither rely on rents nor on outsourcing their economic reproduction. Thus in Eritrea, war made the state : the imperatives of war drove the transformation of the EPLF into a state-like organization, and the EPLF’s proto-state in liberated areas was in several regards the foundation of the later sovereign Eritrea and continuities persist until today (Jüde, 2020: 103).…”

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Making or un-making states: when does war have formative effects?

Jüde

2021

European Journal of International Relations

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“War made the state, and the state made war” is Charles Tilly’s famous dictum that has become highly influential both in comparative macrosociology and in International Relations. An extensive literature suggests that this mechanism has played a pivotal role in European processes of state formation. However, its applicability to warfare in the Global South is controversial. While some argue that the relationship remains the same, others are skeptical of the effects of the bellicist mechanism. Against the background of the debate as to whether war makes or un-makes states in the Global South, this paper examines the conditions under which wars have formative effects and result in state-making. Revisiting the war-making/state-making paradigm, I argue that the mode of economic reproduction of “wielders of coercion” determines whether war has formative effects. Wielders of coercion, or more specifically, non-state armed movements may draw on (1) rents, (2) indirect extraction, or (3) direct extraction to sustain their economic base and organize coercion. However, they institutionalize and develop into a state-like organization only when they rely on direct extraction. To support these claims, I conduct a plausibility probe drawing on evidence from highly successful armed insurgencies: Eritrea’s EPLF, Somaliland’s SNM, and Namibia’s SWAPO. In sum, the bellicist relationship remains valid for the Global South, even if the conditions under which war makes states are rare. A more nuanced reading of the bellicist theory improves our understanding of the dynamics of state formation and decay in the post-colonial world.

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Making or un-making states: when does war have formative effects?

Jüde

2021

European Journal of International Relations

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The Population-Centric Turn in Special Operations: A Possible Way Ahead for SOF Informed by a Cross-Disciplinary Analysis of State-Building Interventions

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Kitzen

2020

Special Operations Journal

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Transformations of the Ideology of Nation-Building and State-Building in Armenia: Phenomenon of Integrity of Nation and State

Yengoyan

2023

J. Pol. Sci.

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The article deals with the issues of creating a new national ideology in the conditions of state-building in modern Armenia. The discourse of political actors on the role of national ideology, which is divided, is analyzed comparatively. This article attempts to reveal the main reasons why some believe that in modern Armenian society, based on the principles of political and ideological pluralism, there should be no ideology that claims to be national. On the contrary, the adherents of the creation of a national ideology see it as an important tool for the consolidation of the Armenian society. The author comes to the conclusion that the collapse of the USSR and the Soviet ideology led to the fact that the role of ideology was criticized. The article touches upon the topic that since 1991, the process of de-ideologization of society and public institutions began in Armenia. However, in reality, the ideological confrontation between the various actors of the Armenian transit society intensified. Since 1988, the topic of the national ideology of Armenia has been one of the key topics of interdisciplinary research.

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The possibility of state formation and the limitations of liberal international state-building

Cited by 3 publications

References 49 publications

Making or un-making states: when does war have formative effects?

Making or un-making states: when does war have formative effects?

The Population-Centric Turn in Special Operations: A Possible Way Ahead for SOF Informed by a Cross-Disciplinary Analysis of State-Building Interventions

Transformations of the Ideology of Nation-Building and State-Building in Armenia: Phenomenon of Integrity of Nation and State

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