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Working Papers by Theme
A number of key themes have emerged from the research of the Crisis States Programme.
On this page, our working papers have been divided between the following themes. In some cases,
individual working papers might appear under more than one heading.
The Political and Social Impact of Liberalisation
Working Paper No.78
(February 2006)
State Failure and Success in Zimbabwe and Uganda: the logic of political decay and reocnstruction in Africa
(E.A.Brett)
Working Paper No.74
(December 2005)
The Country Behind the Ballot Box; the impact of political reform in Colombia during a humanitarian crisis
(Marcela Ceballos)
Working Paper No.72
(October 2005)
Subverting the spaces of invitation: local politics and partipatory budgeting in post-crisis Buenos Aires
(Dennis Rodgers)
Working Paper No.63
(June 2005)
Deconstruction without Reconstruction? The Case of Peru (1978-2004)
(Francisco Gutiérrez)
Working Paper No.61
(April 2005)
Unintentional Democratisation? The Argentinazo and the Politics of
Participatory Budgeting in Buenos Aires, 2001-2004
(Dennis Rodgers)
Working Paper No.58
(January 2005)
From Corporatism to Liberalisation in Zimbabwe: Economic Policy Regimes and Political Crisis (1980-1997)
(E. A. Brett)
Working Paper No.53
(November 2004)
Postcolonial Workplace Regimes in the Engineering Industry in South Africa, Swaziland and Zimbabwe
(Andries Bezuidenhout)
Working Paper No.49 (July 2004)
The Legacies of Apartheid and Implications of Economic Liberalisation: A Post-Apartheid Township
(Sarah Mosoetsa)
Working Paper No.46 (June 2004)
The Political Economy of Economic Liberalisation in Venezuela
(Jonathan DiJohn)
Working Paper No.40 (February 2004)
Constructing Authority Alternatives in Colombia: Globalisation and the Transformation of Governance
(Ann C. Mason)
Working Paper No.31 (June 2003)
What strategies are viable for developing countries today? The
World Trade Organization and the shrinking of ‘development space’
(Robert Hunter Wade)
Working Paper No.28 (April 2003)
From the Alliance for Progress to the Plan Colombia
(Luis Eduardo Fajardo)
Working Paper No.20 (December 2002)
Mineral-Resource Abundance and Violent Political Conflict: a critical assessment of the rentier state model
(Jonathan DiJohn)
Working Paper No.15 (August 2002)
Are Donors to Mozambique Promoting Corruption?
(Joseph Hanlon)
Working Paper No.12 (July 2002)
Liberal Theory, Uneven Development and Institutional Reform: responding to the crisis in weak states
(E.A.Brett)
The Politics of Conflict Management and Democratic Reform
Anti-Politics and Populism
Working Paper No.76
(December 2005)
The Political Economy of Anti-Politics and Social Polarisation in Venezuela, 1998-2004
(Jonathan DiJohn)
Working Paper No.63
(June 2005)
Deconstruction without Reconstruction? The Case of Peru (1978-2004)
(Francisco Gutiérrez)
Working Paper No.46 (June 2004)
The Political Economy of Economic Liberalisation in Venezuela
(Jonathan DiJohn)
Working Paper No.30 (June 2003)
Peru's Failed Search for Political Stability
(María Emma Wills & María Teresa Pinto)
Working Paper No.26 (March 2003)
The Dynamics of achieving 'Power' and 'Reform' as a Positive-sum Game
(Manoj Srivastava)
Working Paper No.25 (March
2003, revised January 2005)
The Times of Democratic Involutions
(Francisco Gutiérrez Sanín)
Institutional Multiplicity
Working Paper No.72 (October 2005)
Subverting the spaces of invitation? local politics and participatory budgeting in post-crisis Buenos Aires
(Dennis Rodgers)
Working Paper No.60 (April 2005)
Crafting Democracy and Good Governance in Local Arenas: Theory, Dilemmas, and
their Resolution through the Experiments in Madhya Pradesh, India? (Manoj
Srivastava)
Working Paper No.59
(January 2005)
Exit, Voice and Tradition: Loyalty to Chieftainship and Democracy in Metropolitan Durban, South Africa
(Jo Beall)
Working Paper No.52
(November 2004)
Critically Assessing Traditions: the Case of Meghalaya
(Manorama Sharma)
Working Paper No.51
(October 2004)
'Good' State vs. 'Bad' Warlords? A Critique of State-Building Strategies
in Afghanistan
(Antonio Giustozzi)
Working Paper No.49 (July 2004)
The Legacies of Apartheid and Implications of Economic Liberalisation: A Post-Apartheid Township
(Sarah Mosoetsa)
Working Paper No.48 (July 2004)
Traditional Authority, Institutional Multiplicity and Political Transition in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
(Jo Beall, Sibongiseni Mkhize, Shahid Vawda)
Working Paper No.41 (March 2004)
Access to Justice: The Palestinian Legal System and the Fragmentation of Coercive Power
(Tobias Kelly)
Working Paper No.40 (February 2004)
Constructing Authority Alternatives in Colombia: Globalisation and the Transformation of Governance
(Ann C. Mason)
Working Paper No.39 (January 2004)
Ethnic Conflicts and Traditional Self-governing Institutions: A Study of Laitumkrah Dorbar
(Apurba K. Baruah)
Working Paper No.36 (November 2003)
Developing Multi-Party Politics: Stability and Change in Ghana and Mozambique
(Giovanni M. Carbone)
Working Paper No.33 (September 2003)
Respectable Warlords? The Politics of State-Building in Post-Taleban Afghanistan
(Antonio Giustozzi)
Working Paper No.26 (March 2003)
The Dynamics of achieving 'Power' and 'Reform' as a Positive-sum Game
(Manoj Srivastava)
Working Paper No.25 (March
2003, revised January 2005)
The Times of Democratic Involutions
(Francisco Gutiérrez Sanín)
Working Paper No.24 (March
2003, revised September 2004)
Hyper-Fragmentation and Traditional Politics in Colombia: Discussing
Alternative Explanations
(Francisco Gutiérrez Sanín)
Working Paper No.23 (March 2003)
Emerging Pluralist Politics in Mozambique: the Frelimo-Renamo Party System
(Giovanni M.Carbone)
Working Paper No.22 (March 2003)
Tribal traditions and crises of governance in North East India, with special reference to Meghalaya
(Apurba Baruah)
Working Paper No.19 (December 2002)
From Segmentarity to Opacity: on Gellner and Bourdieu, or why Algerian politics have eluded theoretical analysis and vice versa
(Hugh Roberts)
State Capacity to Manage Conflict
Working Paper
14 (series 2)(September 2006)
Understanding State-building and Local Government in Afghanistan
(Sarah Lister)
Working Paper
5 (series 2)(September 2006)
No Ownership, No Peace: the Darfur Peace Agreement
(Laurie Nathan)
Working Paper 3 (series 2) (July 2006)
Economic and Political Foundations of State-making in Africa: understanding
state reconstruction
(Gabi Hesselbein, Frederick Golooba Mutebi, James Putzel)
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Working Paper 2 (series 2)(June 2006)
Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration of ex-combatants (DDR) in Afghanistan: constraints and limited capabilities
(Simonetta Rossi and Antonio Giustozzi)
Working Paper 70(October 2005)
Conflict, State and Decentralisation: from social progress to an armed dispute for local control, 1974-2002)
(Fabio Sanchez and Mario Chacon)
Working Paper 66(September 2005)
Re-stating the State: paramilitary territorial control and political order in Colombia (1978-2004)
(Francisco Gutierrez Sanin and Mauricio Baron)
Working Paper 65(June 2005)
The Political Economy of Nicaragua's Institutional and Organisational Framework for Dealing with Youth Violence
(José Luis Rocha Gómez)
Working Paper No.64
(June 2005)
Surviving the 'Waking Nightmare': Securing Stability in the Face of Crisis in Cuba (1989-2004)
(Jonathan Curry-Machado)
Working Paper No.55
(November 2004)
Security Communities and the Problem of Domestic Instability
(Laurie Nathan)
Working Paper No.51
(October 2004)
'Good' State vs. 'Bad' Warlords? A Critique of State-Building Strategies
in Afghanistan
(Antonio Giustozzi)
Working Paper No.50 (July 2004)
The Absence of Common Values and Failure of Common Security in Southern Africa, 1992-2003
(Laurie Nathan)
Working Paper No.45 (June 2004)
Representation, Participation and Development: Lessons from Small Industry in Latin America
(Kenneth C. Shadlen)
Working Paper No.44 (June 2004)
Understanding the Legacies of Political Violence: An Examination of
Political Conflict in Mpumalanga Township, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa
(Debby Bonnin)
Working Paper No.43 (June 2004)
Rethinking Miltarism in Post-Apartheid South Africa
(Jacklyn Cock)
Working Paper No.41 (March 2004)
Access to Justice: The Palestinian Legal System and the Fragmentation of Coercive Power
(Tobias Kelly)
Working Paper No.40 (February 2004)
Constructing Authority Alternatives in Colombia: Globalisation and the Transformation of Governance
(Ann C. Mason)
Working Paper No.33 (September 2003)
Respectable Warlords? The Politics of State-Building in Post-Taleban Afghanistan
(Antonio Giustozzi)
Working Paper No.32 (August 2003)
Violence and Drug Prohibition in Colombia
(Carlos Medina & Hermes Martínez)
Working Paper No.20 (December 2002)
Mineral-Resource Abundance and Violent Political Conflict: a critical assessment of the rentier state model
(Jonathan DiJohn)
Working Paper No.17 (October 2002)
Moral Economy or Moral Polity? The political anthropology of Algerian riots
(Hugh Roberts)
Working Paper No.13 (August 2002)
The State, Tradition and Conflict in the North Eastern States of India
(John Harriss)
Working Paper No.9 (February 2002)
Governance and Conflict Management: implications for donor intervention
(Benedict Latto)
Ethnicity, Ethnic Conflict and Identity Politics
Working Paper No.80
(September 2006)
A State of One's Own: secessionism and federalism in India
(Neera Chandhoke)
Working Paper No.79
(February 2006)
Explaining Manipur's Breakdown and Mizoram's Peace: the state and identities in North East India
(M. Sajjad Hassan)
Working Paper No.77
(December 2005)
Rwanda's Ordinary Killers: interpreting popular participation in the Rwandan genocide
(Omar McDoom)
Working Paper No.75
(December 2005)
Of Broken Social Contracts and Ethnic Violence: the case of Kashmir
(Neera Chandhoke)
Working Paper No.74
(December 2005)
The Political Consequences of Ethnic Mapping
(Neera Chandhoke)
Working Paper No.52
(November 2004)
Critically Assessing Traditions: the Case of Meghalaya
(Manorama Sharma)
Working Paper No.51
(October 2004)
'Good' State vs. 'Bad' Warlords? A Critique of State-Building Strategies
in Afghanistan
(Antonio Giustozzi)
Working Paper No.48 (July 2004)
Traditional Authority, Institutional Multiplicity and Political Transition in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
(Jo Beall, Sibongiseni Mkhize, Shahid Vawda)
Working Paper No.44 (June 2004)
Understanding the Legacies of Political Violence: An Examination of
Political Conflict in Mpumalanga Township, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa
(Debby Bonnin)
Working Paper No.42 (June 2004)
Urban Fault Lines in Shangri-La: Population and Economic Foundations of Inter-ethnic Conflict in the Tibetan Areas of Western China
(Andrew Martin Fischer)
Working Paper No.39 (January 2004)
Ethnic Conflicts and Traditional Self-governing Institutions: A Study of Laitumkrah Dorbar
(Apurba K. Baruah)
Working Paper No.36 (November 2003)
Developing Multi-Party Politics: Stability and Change in Ghana and Mozambique
(Giovanni M. Carbone)
Working Paper No.33 (September 2003)
Respectable Warlords? The Politics of State-Building in Post-Taleban Afghanistan
(Antonio Giustozzi)
Working Paper No.23 (March 2003)
Emerging Pluralist Politics in Mozambique: the Frelimo-Renamo Party System
(Giovanni M.Carbone)
Working Paper No.22 (March 2003)
Tribal traditions and crises of governance in North East India, with special reference to Meghalaya
(Apurba Baruah)
Working Paper No.19 (December 2002)
From Segmentarity to Opacity: on Gellner and Bourdieu, or why Algerian politics have eluded theoretical analysis and vice versa
(Hugh Roberts)
Working Paper No.17 (October 2002)
Moral Economy or Moral Polity? The political anthropology of Algerian riots
(Hugh Roberts)
Working Paper No.13 (August 2002)
The State, Tradition and Conflict in the North Eastern States of India
(John Harriss)
Working Paper No.10 (February 2002)
The People Behind the Walls: Insecurity, identity and gated communitiees in Johannesburg
(Jo Beall)
Working Paper No.7 (December 2001)
Co-opting Identity: the manipulation of Berberism, the frustration of democratisation and the generation of violence in Algeria
(Hugh Roberts)
The Relationship Between Democracy and Violence
Working Paper No.8 (series 2)
(December 2006)
Identifying Fraud in Democratic Elections: a case study of the 2004 presidential election in Mozambique
Working Paper No.81
(September 2006)
Dominance and Retaliation in the Informal Structure of Authority: a comparative study of Madhya Pradesh and Bihar
(Rakesh Chaubey)
Working Paper No.66
(September 2005)
Re-stating the State: paramilitary territorial control and political order in Colombia (1978-2004)
(Francisco Gutierrez Sanin and Mauricio Baron)
Working Paper No.65
(June 2005)
The Political Economy of Nicaragua's Institutional and Organisational Framework for Dealing with Youth Violence
(José Luis Rocha Gómez)
Working Paper No.57
(December 2004)
Electoral Behaviour Trends and Decentralisation in Colombia's Municipalities, 1988-2000
(Diana Hoyos & Marcela Ceballos)
Working Paper No.55
(November 2004)
Security Communities and the Problem of Domestic Instability
(Laurie Nathan)
Working Paper No.51
(October 2004)
'Good' State vs. 'Bad' Warlords? A Critique of State-Building Strategies
in Afghanistan
(Antonio Giustozzi)
Working Paper No.44 (June 2004)
Understanding the Legacies of Political Violence: An Examination of
Political Conflict in Mpumalanga Township, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa
(Debby Bonnin)
Working Paper No.43 (June 2004)
Rethinking Miltarism in Post-Apartheid South Africa
(Jacklyn Cock)
Working Paper No.38 (November 2003)
Political Participation and War in Colombia: An Analysis of the 2002 Elections
(Miguel García and Gary Hoskin)
Working Paper No.37 (November 2003)
Demobilising Guatemala
(David Keen)
Working Paper No.36 (November 2003)
Developing Multi-Party Politics: Stability and Change in Ghana and Mozambique
(Giovanni M. Carbone)
Working Paper No.23 (March 2003)
Emerging Pluralist Politics in Mozambique: the Frelimo-Renamo Party System
(Giovanni M.Carbone)
Working Paper No.8 (January 2002)
Subaltern Resurgence: a reconnaissance of Panchayat election in Bihar
(Shaibal Gupta)
Violence, War and Problems of Consolidating Peace
Institutional Innovations from Bottom Up
Working Paper No.72
(October 2005)
Subverting the spaces of invitation? local politics and participatory budgeting in post-crisis Buenos Aires
(Dennis Rodgers)
Working Paper No.71
(October 2005)
Urban Segregation from Below: drugs, consumption and primitive accumulation in Managua, Nicaragua
(Dennis Rodgers)
Working Paper No.64
(June 2005)
Surviving the 'Waking Nightmare': Securing Stability in the Face of Crisis in Cuba (1989-2004)
(Jonathan Curry-Machado)
Working Paper No.62
(April 2005)
The Effects of Decentralisation on Public Investment: Evidence and Four Lessons from Bolivia and Colombia
(Jean-Paul Faguet)
Working Paper No.61
(April 2005)
Unintentional Democratisation? The Argentinazo and the Politics of Participatory
Budgeting in Buenos Aires, 2001-2004
(Dennis Rodgers)
Working Paper No.60 (April 2005)
Crafting Democracy and Good Governance in Local Arenas: Theory, Dilemmas, and
their Resolution through the Experiments in Madhya Pradesh, India?
(Manoj Srivastava)
Working Paper No.59
(January 2005)
Exit, Voice and Tradition: Loyalty to Chieftainship and Democracy in Metropolitan Durban, South Africa
(Jo Beall)
Working Paper No.56
(December 2004)
Business-led Peacebuilding in Colombia: Fad or Future of a Country in Crisis?
(Angelika Rettberg)
Working Paper No.54
(November 2004)
Decentralisation and Engendering Democracy: Lessons from Local Government Reform in South Africa
(Jo Beall)
Working Paper No.49 (July 2004)
The Legacies of Apartheid and Implications of Economic Liberalisation: A Post-Apartheid Township
(Sarah Mosoetsa)
Working Paper No.35 (October 2003)
Dying For It: Gangs, Violence and Social Change in Urban Nicaragua
(Dennis Rodgers)
Working Paper No.29 (May 2003)
Decentralization and Local Government in Bolivia: an overview from the bottom up
(Jean-Paul Faguet)
Working Paper No.16 (September 2002)
Domesticating Leviathan: Sungusungu groups in Tanzania
(Suzette Heald)
Working Paper No.11 (February 2002)
Social Differentiation and Urban Governance in Greater Soweto: a case study of post-apartheid reconstruction
(Jo Beall, Owen Crankshaw, Susan Parnell)
Working Paper No.8 (January 2002)
Subaltern Resurgence: a reconnaissance of Panchayat election in Bihar
(Shaibal Gupta)
Working Paper No.6 (September 2001)
Making Danger a Calling: Anthropology, violence and the dilemmas of participant observation
(Dennis Rodgers)
Interpretations of War and Violence
Working Paper No.4 (series 2)
(September 2006)
Genesis of a 'Prince': the rise of Ismail Khanin western Afghanistan, 1979-1992
(Antonio Giustozzi)
Working Paper No.77
(December 2005)
Rwanda's Ordinary Killers: interpreting popular participation in the Rwandan genocide
(Omar McDoom)
Working Paper No.66
(September 2005)
Re-stating the State: parmilitary territorial control and political order in Colombia (1978-2004)
(Francisco Gutierrez Sanin and Mauricio Baron)
Working Paper No.55
(November 2004)
Security Communities and the Problem of Domestic Instability
(Laurie Nathan)
Working Paper No.47 (July 2004)
A Geography of Illicit Crops (Coca Leaf) and Armed Conflict in Colombia
(Ana María Díaz and Fabio Sánchez)
Working Paper No.44 (June 2004)
Understanding the Legacies of Political Violence: An Examination of
Political Conflict in Mpumalanga Township, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa
(Debby Bonnin)
Working Paper No.43 (June 2004)
Rethinking Miltarism in Post-Apartheid South Africa
(Jacklyn Cock)
Working Paper No.37 (November 2003)
Demobilising Guatemala
(David Keen)
Working Paper No.33 (September 2003)
Respectable Warlords? The Politics of State-Building in Post-Taleban Afghanistan
(Antonio Giustozzi)
Working Paper No.32 (August 2003)
Violence and Drug Prohibition in Colombia
(Carlos Medina & Hermes Martínez)
Working Paper No.28 (April 2003)
From the Alliance for Progress to the Plan Colombia
(Luis Eduardo Fajardo)
Working Paper No.27 (April 2003)
Criminal Rebels? A discussion of war and criminality from the Colombian experience
(Francisco Gutiérrez Sanín)
Working Paper No.21 (December 2002)
Women in War and Crisis Zones - one key to Africa's Wars of Under-Development
(Victoria Brittain)
Working Paper No.20 (December 2002)
Mineral-Resource Abundance and Violent Political Conflict: a critical assessment of the rentier state model
(Jonathan DiJohn)
Working Paper No.14 (August 2002)
"Since I am a Dog, Beware my Fangs": Beyond a 'rational violence' framework in the Sierra Leonean war.
(David Keen)
Working Paper No.6 (September 2001)
Making Danger a Calling: Anthropology, violence and the dilemmas of participant observation
(Dennis Rodgers)
Political Islam
Working Paper No.11 (February 2007)
The Missing Ingredient: non-ideological insurgency and state collapse in Western Afghanistan, 1979-1992
(Antonio Giustozzi)
Working Paper No.6 (September 2006)
The Failure of a Clerical Proto-State: Hazarajat 1979 - 1984
(Niamatullah Ibrahimi)
Working Paper No.34 (October 2003)
North African Islamism in the Blinding Light of 9-11
(Hugh Roberts)
Working Paper No.19 (December 2002)
From Segmentarity to Opacity: on Gellner and Bourdieu, or why Algerian politics have eluded theoretical analysis and vice versa
(Hugh Roberts)
Working Paper No.17 (October 2002)
Moral Economy or Moral Polity? The political anthropology of Algerian riots
(Hugh Roberts)
Working Paper No.7 (December 2001)
Co-opting Identity: the manipulation of Berberism, the frustration of democratisation and the generation of violence in Algeria
(Hugh Roberts)
Developing Institutional Analysis
Working Paper No.35 (October 2003)
Dying For It: Gangs, Violence and Social Change in Urban Nicaragua
(Dennis Rodgers)
Working Paper No.29 (May 2003)
Decentralization and Local Government in Bolivia: an overview from the bottom up
(Jean-Paul Faguet)
Working Paper No.25 (March
2003, revised January 2005)
The Times of Democratic Involutions
(Francisco Gutiérrez Sanín)
Working Paper No.24 (March
2003, revised September 2004)
Hyper-Fragmentation and Traditional Politics in Colombia: Discussing
Alternative Explanations
(Francisco Gutiérrez Sanín)
Working Paper No.20 (December 2002)
Mineral-Resource Abundance and Violent Political Conflict: a critical assessment of the rentier state model
(Jonathan DiJohn)
Working Paper No.18 (October 2002)
Politics, the State and the Impulse for Social Protection: the implications of Karl Polanyi's ideas for understanding development and crisis
(James Putzel)
Working Paper No.12 (July 2002)
Liberal Theory, Uneven Development and Institutional Reform: responding to the crisis in weak states
(E.A.Brett)
Working Paper No.9 (February 2002)
Governance and Conflict Management: implications for donor intervention
(Benedict Latto)
Working Paper No.5 (April 2001)
Crisis States: South Africa in Southern Africa
Working Paper No.4 (April 2001)
Research in Latin America
Working Paper No.3 (April 2001)
Collaborative Research: States of Crisis in South Asia and on "Political Ethnography"
Working Paper No.2 (April 2001)
Research Activities
Working Paper No.1 (April 2001)
Concept and Research Agenda
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