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From environmental concerns, through vigilante citizenship, to the legacies of armed conflicts during and after decolonization, this title intends to reconstruct the contradictory history of development and critically engage contemporary responses and their implications for social and political analyses.

Focuses on the history of nation-building during the era of decolonization and the Cold War and on the post-Cold War and post-9/11 pursuit of nation-building. This book explores themes that relate to 'successful' and 'unsuccessful' nation-building efforts from South Vietnam in the 1950s and 1960s to East Timor and Afghanistan in the 21st century.

Beyond the Gatekeeper State explores the dynamic changes occurring within and between African states, and the international system since the turn of the century.

Focuses on changes in the nature of nationalisms in selected cases of Asia under the impact of the inegalitarian political economy of neoliberalism since the 1970s. This book shows how cultural nationalisms emerged against the background of the political disenfranchisement and disengagement which neoliberal inequalities produced.

Addresses issues of formalisation of property rights, gendered land rights, and neoliberal enclosure. This book demonstrates the pervasive influence of neoliberal ideas on property rights and rural development debates, well beyond the 'core' question of land redistribution. It presents the limitations of the market-led approach.

This book explores how unpacking the concept of fragility and studying its dimensions and forms can help to build policy-relevant understandings of how states become more resilient and the role of aid. It was originally published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.

The violent events in Kyrgyzstan in March 2005 gained the name `Tulip Revolution¿. This book brings together domestic and international perspectives to determine what happened ¿ and with what implications.This book was published as a special issue of Central Asian Survey.

The Spatiality of Violence in Post-war Cities analyses violence in post-war cities from different perspectives and in different parts of the world, with a shared attention to space and how it affects violent dynamics.

Focusing on both historical and contemporary examples, this book explores a number of important themes that relate to 'successful' and 'unsuccessful' nation-building efforts from South Vietnam in the 1950s and 1960s to East Timor, Afghanistan and Iraq in the 21st century. It is for students and scholars of comparative politics and peace studies.

The contributions to this book discuss how the European Union has implemented its policies aimed at governance reform in its partner countries in the South. The contributors adopt a critical perspective in relation to the interests and ideas driving EU strategies on governance reform.This book was published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.

Through a combination of theoretical works and a series of case studies, the volume highlights the cutting edge of international labour studies. This book was published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.