期刊名称：Journal of Alternative Perspectives in the Social Sciences
印刷版ISSN：1944-1088
电子版ISSN：1944-1096
出版年度：2011
卷号：3
期号：3
页码：656-673
出版社：Guild of Independent Scholars
摘要：Recent civil war research and international development discourse indicate that state fragility is the key variable that causes political instability and violence. The problem of fragility lies in transitional states, which are being governed by hybrid regimes. International community, in the post Cold-War era, has been addressing the problem through peace-building programs by identifying and supporting structures relevant to the consolidation of peace. Under the euphoria of 'end of history', however, western policy makers and scholars believed that those relevant structures must be liberal in orientation. However, naivety, that liberalization of politico-economic structures alone would suffice the consolidation of peace, proved counterproductive. Thus, 'stateness first' and 'state-building for peace' is the lesson learned by scholars and practitioners in the field. Main theorists of the field, however, contend that state building is not a simple task of institution-building in isolation; rather it is a complex process of state-society relations. Therefore, problem of fragility and thus violence should be viewed through broader social context in which state operates
