War Making and State Making in Central Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3751222 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Niemann (0000-0001-6278-7978, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 20-39 |
| Publication date | 2007-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Africa Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0001-9887 • E-ISSN: 1527-1978 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/aft.2007.53.3.20 |
| OpenAlex | W2052156675 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
| References cited | 41 |
Continued conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has resulted, not from the "failed-state syndrome," but from the continuing struggle to establish viable states on the ruins of repressive colonial states. Starting with Tilly's account of the process of statemaking in Europe, I argue that while control over resources and the means of violence is a crucially motivating factor, the largely forgotten questions of membership in political communities are at the core of the conflict
Development economics · Economics · Political economy · Political science · State (computer science) · Computer Science · Peacebuilding and International Security · Political Conflict and Governance · Religion and Society Interactions
State-making at Gunpoint
Diagnosis, Intervention, and Cure
On the (In)Compatibility of Peace-Building and State-Making
Trade Makes States
Trust as Social Infrastructure in Somali Trading Networks
The Revival and Re-Embedding of Somali Ports
Failures of the state failure debate
Governance as Political Theory
The paradox of state identification
African conflicts and informal power
Criminal Enterprises and Governance in Latin America and the Caribbean
Predation and dispossession in Africa
The European Union’s ambiguous concept of ‘state fragility’
The dark(er) side of ‘state failure’
Proximities of Violence
Does war make states? Rentierism and the formation of states in the Middle East
Peace-building as state-building'? Rethinking liberal interventionism in contexts of emerging states
O trágico do Estado pós-colonial. Sony Labou Tansi e Pius Ngandu Nkashama
Between protest, revenge and material interests
Mimesis and Mimicry in Dynamics of State and Identity Formation in Northern Somalia
Somaliland's best kept secret
The Banyamulenge of South Kivu
Africa works
The Black man's burden
The real economy of Zaire
National deconstruction
The Third World Security Predicament
Collapsed States
Imagining the Congo
King Leopold's Ghost
Collapsed states
The State-Society Struggle
Timeless Space and State-Centrism
Human Rights in Global Politics
The Global Economy as Political Space
The African Stakes of the Congo War
Making a killing
Complex political emergencies, the international community & the Congo conflict
Conflict of interests or interests in conflict? diamonds & war in the DRC
Citizenship, identity formation & conflict in South Kivu
The tunnel at the end of the light
The study of political transitions in Africa
War and the State in Africa
When All Else Fails
Responding to State Failure in Africa
Autochthony
The production of space
Why Africa's Weak States Persist
Ambitions, Profits and Loss
L'Afrique dans le monde
Zaïre
African states, citizenship and war
African and American Connivance in Congo-Zaire
Explaining Ugandan intervention in Congo
The State of African Studies and Studies of the African State
Understanding Genocide
The State of African Studies and Studies of the African State
Beyond state-centrism? Space, territoriality, and geographical scale in globalization studies
| Unique citing works | 22 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,22 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2023 (16) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |