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Extralegal Groups in Post-Conflict Liberia - How Trade Makes the State (Hardcover)
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Extralegal Groups in Post-Conflict Liberia - How Trade Makes the State (Hardcover)
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In the aftermath of the Liberian civil war, groups of ex-combatants
seized control of natural resource enclaves in the rubber, diamond,
and timber sectors. With some of them threatening a return to war,
these groups were widely viewed as the most significant threats to
Liberia's hard-won peace. Building on fieldwork and
socio-historical analysis, this book shows how extralegal groups
are driven to provide basic governance goods in their bid to create
a stable commercial environment. This is a story about how their
livelihood strategies merged with the opportunities of Liberia's
post-war political economy. But it is also a context-specific story
that is rooted in the country's geography, its history of
state-making, and its social and political practices. This volume
demonstrates that extralegal groups do not emerge in a vacuum. In
areas of limited statehood, where the state is weak and political
authority is contested, where rule of law is corrupted and
government distrust runs deep, extralegal groups can provide order
and dispute resolution, forming the basic kernel of the state. This
logic counters the prevailing 'spoiler' narrative, forcing us to
reimagine non-state actors and recast their roles as incidental
statebuilders in the evolutionary process of state-making. This
leads to a broader argument: it is trade, rather than war, that
drives contemporary statebuilding. Along the way, this book poses
some uncomfortable questions about what it means to be legitimately
governed, whether our trust in states is ultimately misplaced,
whether entrenched corruption is the most likely post-conflict
outcome, and whether our expectations of international
peacebuilding and statebuilding are ultimately self-defeating.
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