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Critical Junctures and Missed Opportunities: The Case of Lebanon's Cedar Revolution
(2014-06-11)
This article addresses three shortcomings in the path dependency literature on critical junctures: the neglect of negative cases, non-state actors and of power asymmetries. The 2005 Cedar Revolution had the makings of a ...
A Journey of a Thousand Steps: The Challenges of State and Nation Building in South Sudan
(2011)
On July 9th, 2011, South Sudan will officially become independent. When southern Sudanese voted in the January 9 referendum on independence, they sought to affirm their African identity and shed the Arab identity that they ...
Norm Transmission in Peace- and State-building: Lessons from Democracy Promotion in Sudan and Lebanon
(2012)
This article examines the transmission and reception of democratic norms in the context of liberal peace interventions. It identifies two reasons for the failure to promote democracy: the strategies favored by liberal peace ...
Social Cohesion as Peacebuilding in the Central African Republic and Beyond
(2015-04)
Social cohesion has increasingly been touted as a tool of peacebuilding. Theoretically, the concept is linked with efforts to address inequality and build social capital. Practically, social cohesion is bandied about in ...