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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Christine Cheng (Lecturer in War Studies, Lecturer in War Studies, King's College London)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.40cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 24.00cm Weight: 0.001kg ISBN: 9780199673346ISBN 10: 0199673349 Pages: 384 Publication Date: 07 June 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsThis book is highly recommended to scholars and policymakers interested in grappling with the fuzzy lines between state/non-state, licit/illicit, political/economic, and even war and peace. Rather than considering these fault lines as hermetically sealed boundaries closing off our current approaches to understanding politics, Cheng effectively demonstrates how powerful forces in fact emerge from them. * Thomas Patrick Hinkel, Contemporary Voices * This book makes several important contributions to research on peacebuilding, state formation, and non-state actors ... Through careful, qualitative research in postwar Liberia, it demonstrates that local combatant networks play essential roles in postwar stabilization — and potentially beyond. The book thus points to the importance of extralegal groups in postwar settings, and suggests that both researchers and peacebuilders ignore them at their peril. * Louis-Alexandre Berg, Canadian Journal of African Studies * Chen's study is an excellent contribution to the growing literature on how extra-legal groups build state-like institutions where the 'legitimate' state is either absent or extremely weak ... Cheng brilliantly highlights how extra-legal armed groups provide the basic structures that allow market exchanges and the rule of law — no matter how problematic — to survive and even thrive. * Shortlisted, Canadian Political Science Association Book Prize * Cheng's book makes important conceptual, theoretical and empirical contributions to our understanding of the emergence, development and functions of extra-legal groups thereby enriching the African politics literature and comparative politics literature more generally. * Honorable Mention, African Politics Conference Group Best Book Award * This book is highly recommended to scholars and policymakers interested in grappling with the fuzzy lines between state/non-state, licit/illicit, political/economic, and even war and peace. Rather than considering these fault lines as hermetically sealed boundaries closing off our current approaches to understanding politics, Cheng effectively demonstrates how powerful forces in fact emerge from them. * Thomas Patrick Hinkel, Contemporary Voices * This book makes several important contributions to research on peacebuilding, state formation, and non-state actors ... Through careful, qualitative research in postwar Liberia, it demonstrates that local combatant networks play essential roles in postwar stabilization - and potentially beyond. The book thus points to the importance of extralegal groups in postwar settings, and suggests that both researchers and peacebuilders ignore them at their peril. * Louis-Alexandre Berg, Canadian Journal of African Studies * Chen's study is an excellent contribution to the growing literature on how extra-legal groups build state-like institutions where the 'legitimate' state is either absent or extremely weak ... Cheng brilliantly highlights how extra-legal armed groups provide the basic structures that allow market exchanges and the rule of law - no matter how problematic - to survive and even thrive. * Shortlisted, Canadian Political Science Association Book Prize * Cheng's book makes important conceptual, theoretical and empirical contributions to our understanding of the emergence, development and functions of extra-legal groups thereby enriching the African politics literature and comparative politics literature more generally. * Honorable Mention, African Politics Conference Group Best Book Award * Author InformationDr Christine Cheng is Lecturer in War Studies at King's College London. She is co-editor of Corruption and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding: Selling the Peace? and she sits on the Conflict Research Society's Governing Council. Her publications include Corruption and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding: Selling the Peace? (co-authored with Dominik Zaum, Routledge, 2011). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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