TY - JOUR
T1 - The Legacy of State Formation Theory for Peacebuilding and Statebuilding
AU - Richmond, Oliver P.
PY - 2013/6
Y1 - 2013/6
N2 - The mainstream literature on state formation has provided the basis for peacebuilding and statebuilding praxes to focus on power and realist concepts of security and the state. The dominant focus on violence and how it shapes the state has been an important motif of peacebuilding and statebuilding literatures. However, state formation literatures also offer sociological, anthropological, and structural accounts as a basis for a post-colonial framework for peace, security, and order, which expose the limits of peacebuilding and statebuilding.
AB - The mainstream literature on state formation has provided the basis for peacebuilding and statebuilding praxes to focus on power and realist concepts of security and the state. The dominant focus on violence and how it shapes the state has been an important motif of peacebuilding and statebuilding literatures. However, state formation literatures also offer sociological, anthropological, and structural accounts as a basis for a post-colonial framework for peace, security, and order, which expose the limits of peacebuilding and statebuilding.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84888062982&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/13533312.2013.838398
DO - 10.1080/13533312.2013.838398
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84888062982
SN - 1353-3312
VL - 20
SP - 299
EP - 315
JO - International Peacekeeping
JF - International Peacekeeping
IS - 3
ER -