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Kurz, Christof P.

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Mobilizing for or against the State: State Formation and Civil War in Four West African States.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Mobilizing for or against the State: State Formation and Civil War in Four West African States./
Author:	Kurz, Christof P.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2016,
Description:	390 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-11(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-11A(E).
Subject:	International relations. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10141557
ISBN:	9781339969176

Mobilizing for or against the State: State Formation and Civil War in Four West African States.
Kurz, Christof P.

Mobilizing for or against the State: State Formation and Civil War in Four West African States. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016 - 390 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-11(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts University), 2016.

This dissertation proposes a new way of looking at the causal relationship between state capacity and the outbreak of civil war in post-colonial states by addressing key weaknesses in the current literature on the topic. It makes two main arguments.

ISBN: 9781339969176Subjects--Topical Terms:

531762
International relations.

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