The Failure of State Building and the Promise of State Failure: reinterpreting the security–development nexus in Haiti

Autor: Kamil Shah
Rok vydání: 2009
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Zdroj: Third World Quarterly. 30:17-34
ISSN: 1360-2241
0143-6597
DOI: 10.1080/01436590802622243
Popis: This article critically examines the discourse surrounding fragile states in relation to the security–development nexus. I draw on the case of Haiti to problematise key assumptions underpinning mainstream approaches to resolving concerns of security and development through the contemporary project of state building. In contrast, I suggest that a focus on the social and political relations constitutive of social struggles provides a framework for a better analysis of the historical trajectory of development in—and of—fragile states. Through an alternative relational interpretation of Haitian social and political formations, I illustrate the way in which ‘Haitian’ experiences of social change have been co-produced in a world historical context. By foregrounding these relational dynamics at key conjunctures coinciding with periods in which the state, state formation and state building, were perceived to be central to Haitian development, this analysis highlights the extent to which attempts to conso...
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