CSRC Working Papers
The Crisis States Research Centre (CSRC) conducts interdisciplinary research on processes of war, state collapse and reconstruction in fragile states. The research of CSRC seeks to build academic knowledge, contribute to the development of theory and inform current and future policymaking. CSRC Working Papers are the core publication series of the Centre and contain the results of its ongoing research activities.
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Publications:
- Understanding the Origins and Pace of Africa's Urban Transition
- Patterns of Resource Mobilisation and the Underlying Elite Bargain
- Citizenship, the ‘Right to the City’ and State Fragility
- Double-Edged Swords: Armies, Elite Bargaining and State-Building
- Cities, Conflict and State Fragility
- Taxation, Resource Mobilisation and State Performance
- Drugs and (Dis)Order
- Land Acquisition for Public Use
- The Peacemaking Effectiveness of Regional Organisations
- Civilian Control of the Military in Tanzania and Zambia
- Kyrgyzstan in Crisis: Permanent Revolution and the Curse of Nationalism
- The Political Economy of Taxation and State Resilience in Zambia since 1990
- Inclusive Elite Bargains and Civil War Avoidance: The Case of Zambia
- Exclusionary Elite Bargains and Civil War Onset: The Case of Uganda
- State Resilience Against the Odds
- Poverty is Not Being Reduced in Mozambique
- A Pariah in our Midst: Regional Organizations and the Problematic of Western-Designated Pariah Regimes
- The Political Economy of Social Violence
- Some Reflections on the Notion of an 'Inclusive Political Pact'
- The Open City: Social Networks and Violence in Karachi
- Buffer Zone, Colonial Enclave or Urban Hub?
- Nationalism, Urban Poverty and Identity in Maputo, Mozambique
- "The Bastard Child of Nobody"?
- Negotiating with the Taliban: Toward a Solution for the Afghan Conflict
- Armed Conflict, Crime and Social Protest in South Bolivar, Colombia (1996-2004)
- Urban Politics, Conspiracy and Reform in Nampula, Mozambique
- Peacemaking in the Midst of War
- The Quandaries of Coding and Ranking
- Civil Society in Conflict Cities: The Case of Ahmedabad
- The Changing Cross-Border Trade Dynamics Between North-Western Uganda, North-Eastern Congo and Southern Sudan
- The Eye of the Storm: Cities in the Vortex of Afghanistan's Civil Wars
- The City as Frontier: Urban Development and Identity Processes in Goma
- The African Union as Security Actor
- Africa's Sub-Regional Organisations
- Indigenous Institutions, Traditional Leaders and Elite Coalitions for Development
- Portrait of Kinshasa: A City on (the) Edge
- Regional Arrangements and Security Challenges: A Comparative Analysis
- The Dissipation of Political Capital Among Afghanistan's Hazaras: 2001-2009
- Force and Ambiguity: Evaluating Sources for Cross-National Research
- Conflict Early Warning and Response Mechanisms: Tools for Enhancing the Effectiveness of Regional Organizations
- Stupid and Expensive?
- Nothing but Failure?
- The Perils of Emerging Statehood: Civil War and State Reconstruction in Tajikistan
- Politics and Security in Three Colombian Cities
- Divide and Rule: State Penetration in Hazarajat (Afghanistan) from Monarchy to the Taliban
- At the Sources of Factionalism and Civil War in Hazarajat
- Afghanistan: Transition Without End
- The SCO: A Regional Organisation in the Making
- The UN Peacebuilding Commission and the Dissemination of International Norms
- An Illness Called Managua
- Gulu Town in War... and Peace? Displacements, Humanitarianism and Post-War Crisis
- Creole and Tribal Designs: Dar Es Salaam and Kampala as Ethnic Cities in Coalescing Nation States
- Does the Organisation of American States Matter?
- Regional Organisations and Conflict Management: Comparing ASEAN and SAARC
- State-Making and the Post-Conflict City: Integration in Dili, Disintegration in Timor-Leste
- Anti-Imperialism Trumps Human Rights
- European Security: The Role of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe
- European Security: The Role of the European Union
- Collapse, War & Reconstruction in Rwanda
- Collapse, War and Reconstruction in Uganda
- Drivers of Change in the Democratic Republic of Congo
- Conceptualising the Causes and Consequences of Failed States
- District Creation and Decentralisation in Uganda
- Strong Party, Weak State? FRELIMO and State Survival Through the Mozambican Civil War
- Policing, Regime Change and Democracy: Reflections from the Case of Mexico
- The Rise and Decline of the Congolese State
- Robo-War Dreams: Global South Urbanisation and the US Military's 'Revolution in Military Affairs'
- Violent Liberalism? State, Conflict and Political Regime in Colombia, 1930-2006
- The State and the Informal in Sub-Saharan African Urban Economies
- Comprative Research on Contested Cities: Lenses and Scaffoldings
- The Illegitimacy of Democracy? Democratisation and Alienation in Maputo, Mozambique
- Municipal Finance Systems in Conflict Cities: Case Studies on Ahmedabad and Sprinagar, India
- Understanding State-Building and Local Government in Afghanistan
- The Regionalist Project in Central Asia
- Making Law in Rural East Africa: SunguSungu in Kenya
- The Missing Ingredient: Non-Ideological Insurgency and State Collapse in Western Afghanistan
- Slum Wars of the 21st Century: The New Geography of Conflict in Central America
- Cities, Terrorism and Urban Wars of the 21st Century
- Identifying Fraud in Democratic Elections
- "Tribes" and Warlords in Southern Afghanistan
- The Failure of a Clerical Proto-State
- No Ownership, No Peace: the Darfur Peace Agreement
- Genesis of a 'Prince': The Rise of Ismail Khan in Western Afghanistan, 1979-1992
- Dominance and Retaliation in the Informal Structure of Authority: A Comparative Study of Madhya Pradesh and Bihar
- A State of One’s Own: Secessionism and Federalism in India
- Economic and Political Foundations of State-Making in Africa
- Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration of Ex-Combatants (DDR) in Afghanistan
- Explaining Manipur’s Breakdown and Mizoram’s Peace
- State Failure and Success in Uganda and Zimbabwe
- Rwanda’s Ordinary Killers: Interpreting Popular Participation in the Rwandan Genocide
- The Political Economy of Anti-Politics and Social Polarisation in Venezuela 1998-2004
- Of Broken Social Contracts and Ethnic Violence: The Case of Kashmir
- The Country Behind the Ballot Box: The Impact of Political Reform in Colombia During a Humanitarian Crisis
- ‘Populism’ Visits Africa: The Case of Yoweri Museveni and No-Party Democracy in Uganda
- Subverting the spaces of invitation? Local politics and participatory budgeting in post-crisis Buenos Aires
- Urban Segregation From Below: Drugs, Consumption, and Primitive Accumulation in Managua, Nicaragua
- Conflict, State and Decentralisation: From Social Progress to an Armed Dispute for Local Control, 1974-2002
- Law as a Tool: The Challenge of HIV/AIDS in Uganda
- War, State Collapse and Reconstruction
- Close Encounters of an Inner Asian Kind: Tibetan-Muslim Co-Existence and Conflict in Tibet Past and Present
- The Ethnicisation of an Afghan Faction
- Re-stating the State: Paramilitary Territorial Control and Political Order in Colombia (1978-2004)
- The Political Economy of Nicaragua’s Institutional and Organisational Framework for Dealing with Youth Violence
- Surviving the 'Waking Nightmare': Securing Stability in the Face of Crisis in Cuba (1989-2004)
- Deconstruction without Reconstruction? The Case of Peru (1978-2004)
- The Effects Of Decentralisation on Public Investment
- Unintentional Democratisation?
- Crafting Democracy and Good Governance in Local Arenas
- The Times of Democratic Involutions
- Exit, Voice and Tradition: Loyalty to Chieftainship and Democracy in Metropolitan Durban, South Africa
- From Corporatism To Liberalisation In Zimbabwe
- Electoral Behaviour Trends and Decentralisation in Colombia’s Municipalities, 1988-2000
- Business-Led Peacebuilding in Colombia
- Security Communities And The Problem Of Domestic Instability
- Decentralisation and Engendering Democracy: Lessons from Local Government Reform in South Africa
- Post-Colonial Workplace Regimes in the Engineering Industry in South Africa, Swaziland and Zimbabwe
- Critically Assessing Traditions: The Case of Meghalaya
- 'Good' State vs. 'Bad' Warlords? A Critique of State-Building Strategies in Afghanistan
- The Absence of Common Values and Failure of Common Security in Southern Africa, 1992-2003
- The Legacies of Apartheid and Implications of Economic Liberalisation
- Traditional Authority, Institutional Multiplicity and Political Transtition in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
- A Geography of Illicit Crops (Coca Leaf) and Armed Conflict in Columbia
- The Political Economy of Economic Liberalisation in Venezuela
- Representation, Participation and Development: Lessons from Small Industry in Latin America
- Understanding the Legacies of Political Violence: An Examination of Political Conflict in Mpumalanga Township, Kwa-Zulu, South Africa
- Rethinking Militarism in Post-Apartheid South Africa
- Urban Fault Lines in Shangri-La
- Access to Justice: The Palestinian Legal System and the Fragmentation of Coercive Power
- Constructing Authority Alternatives in Colombia: Globalisation and the Transformation of Governance
- Ethnic Conflicts and Traditional Self-Governing Institutions: A Study of Laitumkhrah Dorbar
- Political Participation and War in Colombia: An Analysis of the 2002 Elections
- Demobilising Guatemala
- Developing Multi-Party Politics: Stability and Change in Ghana and Mozambique
- Dying for It: Gangs, Violence and Social Change in Urban Nicaragua
- North African Islamism in the Blinding Light of 9-11
- Respectable Warlords? The Politics of State-Building in Post-Taleban Afghanistan
- Violence and Drug Prohibition in Colombia
- What Strategies are Viable for Developing Countries Today? The World Trade Organization and the Shrinking of 'Development Space'
- Peru's Failed Search for Political Stability (1968-2000)
- Decentralization and Local Government in Bolivia: An Overview from the Bottom Up
- From the Alliance for Progress to the Plan Colombia: A Retrospective Look at US Aid to Colombia
- Criminal Rebels? A Discussion of War and Criminality from the Colombian Experience
- The Dynamics of Achieving 'Power' and 'Reform' as a Positive-Sum Game
- Hyper-Fragmentation and Traditional Politics in Colombia: Discussing Alternative Explanations
- Tribal Traditions and Crises of Governance in North East India, with Special Reference to Meghalaya
- Emerging Pluralist Politics in Mozambique: The Frelimo - Renamo Party System
- Women in War and Crisis Zones: One Key to Africa's Wars of Underdevelopment
- Mineral Resource Abundance and Violent Political Conflict: A Critical Assessment of the Rentier State Model
- From Segmentarity to Opacity: On Gellner and Bourdieu, or why Algerian Politics Have Eluded Theoretical Analysis and Vice Versa
- Politics, the State and the Impulse for Social Protection: The Implications of Karl Polanyi's Ideas for Understanding Development and Crisis
- Moral Economy or Moral Polity? The Political Anthropology of Algerian Riots
- Domesticating Leviathan: Sungusungu Groups in Tanzania
- Are Donors to Mozambique Promoting Corruption?
- "Since I am a Dog, Beware my Fangs": Beyond a 'Rational Violence' Framework in the Sierra Leonean War
- The State, Tradition and Conflict in the North Eastern States of India
- Liberal Theory, Uneven Development and Institutional Reform: Responding to the Crisis in Weak States
- Social Differentiation and Urban Governance in Greater Soweto: A Case Study of Post-Apartheid Reconstruction
- The People Behind the Walls: Insecurity, Identity and Gate Communities in Johannesburg
- Governance and Conflict Management: Implications for Donor Intervention
- Subaltern Resurgence: A Reconnaisance of Panchayat Election in Bihar
- Co-opting Identity: The Manipulation of Berberism, The Frustration of Democratisation and the Generation of Violence in Algeria
- Making Danger a Calling: Anthropology, Violence and the Dilemmas of Participant Observation
- Crisis States: South Africa in Southern Africa
- Research in Latin America
- Collaborative Research: States of Crisis in South Asia
- Research Activities
- Concepts and Research Agenda
- Who Governs Kabul?
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