Phase 2 - Papers

The following papers were published during Phase 2 of the Crisis States Research programme (October 2005 - September 2010)

 

Working Papers        Discussion Papers        Occasional Papers        Special Reports        Conference Papers 

 

Cities and Fragile States        Development as State-Making        Regional Organisations, Peace and Security


 

Working Papers:
 

Title : The SCO: a regional organisation in the making

Working Paper No : 39 (series 2)

Author : Anna Matveeva and Antonio Giustozzi

Date : September 2008

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Title The UN Peacebuilding Commission and the Dissemination of International Norms

Working Paper No : 38 (series 2)

Author : Rob Jenkins

Date : June 2008

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Title An Illness Called Managua

Working Paper No : 37 (series 2)

Author : Dennis Rodgers

Date : May 2008

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Title Gulu Town in War… and Peace? Displacement, Humanitarianism and Post-War Crisis

Working Paper No : 36 (series 2)

Author : Adam Branch

Date : April 2008

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Title : Creole and Tribal Designs: Dar es Salaam and Kampala as Ethnic Cities in Coalescing Nation States

Working Paper No : 35 (series 2)

Author : Deborah Fahy Bryceson

Date : April 2008

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Title Does the Organisation of American States Matter?

Working Paper No : 34 (series 2)

Author : Monica Herz

Date : April 2008

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Title Regional Organisations and Conflict Management: comparing ASEAN and SAARC

Working Paper No : 33 (series 2)

Author : Kripa Sridharan

Date : March 2008

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Title State-Making and the Post-Conflict City: Integration in Dili, Disintegration in Timor-Leste

Working Paper No : 32 (series 2)

Author : Ben Moxham

Date : February 2008

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Title : Anti-imperialism Trumps Human Rights: South Africa's Approach to the Darfur Conflict

Working Paper No : 31 (series 2)

Author : Laurie Nathan

Date : February 2008

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Title : European Security: The Role of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe

Working Paper No : 30 (series 2)

Author : Bjørn Møller

Date : February 2008

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Title : European Security: The Role of the European Union

Working Paper No : 29 (series 2)

Author : Bjørn Møller

Date : February 2008

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Title : Collapse, War and Reconstruction in Rwanda: An analytical narrative on state-making

Working Paper No : 28 (series 2)

Author : Frederick Golooba-Mutebi

Date : February 2008

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Title : Collapse, War and Reconstruction in Uganda: An analytical narrative on state-making

Working Paper No : 27 (series 2)

Author : Frederick Golooba-Mutebi

Date : January 2008

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Title : Drivers of Change in the Democratic Republic of Congo: The Rise and Decline of the State and Challenges For Reconstruction - A Literature Review

Working Paper No : 26 (Series 2)

Author: James Putzel, Stefan Lindemann and Claire Schouten

Date : January 2008

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Title : Conceptualising the Causes and Consequences of Failed States: A Critical Review of the Literature

Working Paper No : 25 (Series 2)

Author: Jonathan Di John

Date : January 2008

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Title : District Creation and Decentralisation in Uganda

Working Paper No : 24 (Series 2)

Author: Elliott Green

Date : January 2008

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Title : Strong Party, Weak State? Frelimo and State Survival Through the Mozambican Civil War: an analytical narrative on state-making

Working Paper No : 23 (series 2)

Author : Jason Sumich

Date : December 2007

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Title : Policing, Regime Change, and Democracy: Reflections from the Case of Mexico

Working Paper No : 22 (series 2)

Author : Diane E. Davis

Date : November 2007

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Title : The Rise and Decline of the Congolese State: an analytical narrative on state-making

Working Paper No : 21 (series 2)

Author : Gabi Hesselbein

Date : November 2007

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Title : RoboWar TM Dreams: Global South Urbanisation and the US Military’s ‘Revolution in Military Affairs’

Working Paper No : 20 (series 2)

Author(s) : Stephen Graham

Date : November 2007

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Title : Violent Liberalism? State, Conflict and Political Regime in Colombia, 1930-2006: an analytical narrative on state-making

Working Paper No : 19 (series 2)

Author(s) : Francisco Gutiérrez Sanín, Tatiana Acevedo and Juan Manuel Viatela

Date :  November 2007

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Title : The State and the Informal in Sub-Saharan African Economies: Revisiting Debates on Dualism

Working Paper No : 18 (series 2)

Author(s) : Deborah Potts

Date :  October 2007

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Title : Comparative Research on Contested Cities: Lenses and Scaffoldings

Working Paper No : 17 (series 2)

Author(s) : Scott Bollens

Date : October 2007

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Title : The Illegitimacy of Democracy? Democratisation and Alienation in Maputo, Mozambique

Working Paper No : 16 (series 2)

Author(s) : Jason Sumich

Date : September 2007

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Title : Municipal Finance Systems in Conflict Cities: case studies on Ahmedabad and Srinagar, India

Working Paper No : 15 (series 2)

Author(s) : Pritha Venkatachalam

Date : July 2007

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Title : Understanding State-Building and Local Government in Afghanistan

Working Paper No : 14 (series 2)

Author(s) : Sarah Lister

Date : May 2007

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Title : The Regionalist Project in Central Asia: Unwilling Playmates

Working Paper No : 13 (series 2)

Author(s) : Anna Matveeva

Date : March 2007

[Abstract]    [PDF]

 

Title : Making Law in Rural East Africa: SunguSungu in Kenya

Working Paper No : 12 (series 2)

Author(s) : Suzette Heald

Date :March 2007

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Title : The Missing Ingredient: Non-Ideological Insurgency and State Collapse in Western Afghanistan, 1979-1992

Working Paper No : 11 (series 2)

Author(s) : Antonio Giustozzi

Date : February 2007

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Title : Slum Wars of the 21st Century: the New Geography of Conflict in Central America

Working Paper No : 10 (series 2)

Author(s) : Dennis Rodgers

Date : February 2007

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Title : Cities, Terrorism and Urban Wars of the 21st Century

Working Paper No : 9 (series 2)

Author(s) : Jo Beall

Date : February 2007

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Title : Identifying Fraud in Democratic Elections: a Case Study of the 2004 Presidential Election in Mozambique

Working Paper No : 8 (series 2)

Author(s) : Joe Hanlon and Sean Fox

Date : December 2006

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Title : "Tribes" and Warlords in Southern Afghanistan, 1980-2005

Working Paper No : 7 (series 2)

Author(s) : Antonio Giustozzi

Date : September 2006

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Title : The Failure of a Clerical Proto-State: Hazarajat, 1979 - 1984

Working Paper No : 6 (series 2)

Author(s) : Niamatullah Ibrahimi

Date : September 2006

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Title : No Ownership, No Peace: the Darfur Peace Agreeement

Working Paper No : 5 (series 2)

Author(s) : Laurie Nathan

Date :September 2006

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Title : Genesis of a 'Prince': the Rise of Ismail Khan in Western Afghanistan, 1979-1992

Working Paper No : 4 (series 2)

Author(s) : Antonio Giustozzi

Date : September 2006

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Title : Economic and Political Foundations of State-Making in Africa: Understanding State Reconstruction

Working Paper No : 3 (series 2)

Author(s) : Frederick Golooba Mutebi, Gabi Hesselbein and James Putzel

Date : July 2006

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Title : Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration of Ex-combatants (DDR) in Afghanistan: constraints and limited capabilities

Working Paper No : 2 (series 2)

Author(s) : Simonetta Rossi & Antonio Giustozzi

Date : June 2006

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Title : War, State Collapse and Reconstruction: Phase 2 of the Crisis States Programme

Working Paper No : 1 (series 2)

Author(s) : James Putzel

Date : May 2006

[Abstract]    [PDF]

 

 


 

Discussion Papers

 

Title : Do inclusive elite bargains matter? A research framework for  understanding the causes of civil war in Sub-Saharan Africa

Discussion Paper No : 15

Author(s) : Stefan Lindemann

Date : February 2008

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Occasional Papers

 

 

Title : Capital Cities in Civil Wars: The Locational Dimension of Sovereign Authority

Occasional Paper No : 6

Author(s) : Marika Landau-Wells

Date : April 2008

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Title :  Domestic Ownership or Foreign Control? A Content Analysis of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers from Eight Countries

Occasional Paper No : 5

Author(s) : Marte Briseid, Laura Collinson, Richard L. Klein and Agathe Schjetlein

Date : March 2008

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Title : Beyond Beirut: why reconstruction in Lebanon did not contribute to state-making and stability

Occasional Paper No : 4

Author(s) : Kathrin Hoeckel

Date : July 2007

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Title : Sudan: international dimensions to the state and its crisis

Occasional Paper No : 3

Author(s) : Alex de Waal

Date : April 2007

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Title : Sudan: What kind of state? What kind of crisis?

Occasional Paper No : 2

Author(s) : Alex de Waal

Date : April 2007

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Title : On the Death Toll in Iraq since 1990

Occasional Paper No :  1

Author(s) : Tim Dyson

Date : December 2006

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Special Reports


Dennis Rodgers, 'Joining the Gang and becoming a Broder: the violence of ethnography in contemporary Nicaragua', Special Issue, Bulletin of Latin American Research, Vol 26/4.
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Nicholas Waddell and Phil Clark (eds), 'Courting Conflict?: justice, peace and the ICC in Africa' (March 2008)
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Nicholas Waddell and Phil Clark, 'Peace, Justice and the ICC in Africa' (August 2007)
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James Putzel (ed), Issue 66 of id21 Insights 'Retaining Legitimacy in Fragile States'  (May 2007)
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Laurie Nathan, 'Local Ownership of Security Sector Reform: a guide for donors' (October 2006)
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James Putzel and Joost van der Zwan, 'Why Templates for Media Development do not Work in Crisis States',  (May 2007)
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Conference Papers