Locating Power in State-Building: The Conflict Network Perspective

State-building scholarship distinguishes analytically between the outside and inside realms of the nation-state. Accordingly, obstacles to the external project of reconstructing local political authority are attributed to the relationship between outsiders and insiders which is reflected in studies...

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Published in:Comparative Southeast European studies (Print) 2012-01, Vol.60 (4), p.589-600
Main Authors: Kostovicova, Denisa, Bojićič-Dželilović, Vesna
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accountability
Authority
Conflict
Decision-making
Globalization
Legitimacy
Ownership
Politics / Political Sciences
Power
Regulation
Scholarship
State building
State power
War
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Summary:State-building scholarship distinguishes analytically between the outside and inside realms of the nation-state. Accordingly, obstacles to the external project of reconstructing local political authority are attributed to the relationship between outsiders and insiders which is reflected in studies of legitimacy, ownership and accountability. This paper adopts a war economy perspective to illustrate “regressive globalization”. It elaborates a network-centred analysis and shows that the outside-inside distinction is unable to adequately deal with the challenge posed by the reconfiguration of local power as a consequence of conflict. Rather, it argues that a focus on enduring, multi-faceted relations among a range of actors, both “in- ternal” and “external” in the post-conflict period provides insight into network-based rule and its ability to undermine the state-building project.
ISSN:0722-480X
2701-8199
2701-8202
2364-933X
DOI:10.1515/soeu-2012-600415