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The resilient state: new regulatory modes in international approaches to state building?

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Pospisil, Jan ; Kühn, Florian P.:
The resilient state: new regulatory modes in international approaches to state building?
In: Third World Quarterly. Vol. 37 (2016) Issue 1 . - pp. 1-16.
ISSN 1360-2241
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2015.1086637

Abstract in another language

‘Resilience’ has quickly risen to prominence in international security and development circles. In recent years it has found its way into political discourse on state building and state fragility, triggering a vast but often conceptually indistinct examination of the subject. Given its meaning in policy publications and guidelines, ‘resilience’ tends to eschew a static conceptualisation of statehood, turning instead to a more dynamic, complex and process-oriented rendering of state–society relations. This illustrates a conceptual shift from ‘failed states’ to ‘fragile states and situations’. It also transforms the concept of ‘failed state’ as a mere threat perception – with ‘stability’ as its logical other – into ‘fragility’ as a particular form of social and political risk. This paper analyses the concepts in 43 policy papers, focusing on the nexus of ‘resilience’ and ‘fragility’ in international state building, and assesses potential consequences. What does ‘resilience’ – as the opposite vision to ‘fragility’ – in fact mean? What is the practice derived from this chimerical state of states?

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Item Type: Article in a journal
Refereed: Yes
Keywords: fragile states; resilience; failed states; security; state-building policy
Institutions of the University: Faculties
Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies
Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies > Chair Sociology of Africa
Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies > Chair Sociology of Africa > Chair Sociology of Africa - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jana Hönke
Result of work at the UBT: Yes
DDC Subjects: 300 Social sciences
300 Social sciences > 300 Social sciences, sociology and anthropology
300 Social sciences > 320 Political science
Date Deposited: 17 Jan 2023 07:53
Last Modified: 17 Jan 2023 07:53
URI: https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/73413