Statebuilding and State Formation in the Western Pacific - Solomon Islands in Transition? (Hardcover)

This book provides a rigorous and cross-disciplinary analysis of this Melanesian nation at a critical juncture in its post-colonial and post-conflict history, with contributions from leading scholars of Solomon Islands. The notion of 'transition' as used to describe the recent drawdown of the decade-long Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) provides a departure point for considering other transformations - social, political and economic -under way in the archipelagic nation. Organised around a central tension between change and continuity, two of the book's key themes are the contested narratives of changing state-society relations and the changing social relations around land and natural resources engendered by ongoing processes of globalisation and urbanisation. Drawing heuristically on RAMSI's genesis in the 'state- building moment' that dominated international relations during the first decade of this century, the book also examines the critical distinction between 'state-building' and 'state formation' in the Solomon Islands context. It engages with global scholarly and policy debates on issues such as peacebuilding, state-building, legal pluralism, hybrid governance, globalisation, urbanisation and the governance of natural resources. These themes resonate well beyond Solomon Islands and Melanesia, and the book will be of interest to a wide range of students, scholars and development practitioners. This book was previously published as a special issue of The Journal of Pacific History.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 2016
First published:	2017
Editors:	Matthew Allen • Sinclair Dinnen
Dimensions:	246 x 174mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	142
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-20684-7
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Development studies Books > Humanities > History > Australasian & Pacific history > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > General Books > History > Australasian & Pacific history > General
LSN:	1-138-20684-9
Barcode:	9781138206847

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