Rightsizing the state
Subtitle: the politics of moving borders
By: edited by Brendan O'Leary, Ian S. Lustick, and Thomas Callaghy
Contributors: O'Leary, Brendan; Lustick, Ian, 1949-; Callaghy, Thomas M
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Oxford [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 429
Subjects: Boundaries; Territory, National
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Table of contents: title: The elements of right-sizing and right-peopling the state / Brendan O'Leary; title: Thresholds of opportunity and barriers to change in the right-sizing of states / Ian S. Lustick; title: From reshaping to resizing a failing state?  The case of the Congo/Zaïre / Thomas M. Callaghy; title: Resizing and reshaping the state: India from partition to the present / Gurharpal Singh; title: The negotiable state: borders and power-struggles in Pakistan / Vali Nasr; title: Reifying boundaries, fetishizing the nation: Soviet legacies and élite legitimacy in the post-Soviet states / Alexander J. Motyl; title: Turkey's Kurdish problem: borders, identity, and hegemony / Ümit Cizre; title: Manufacturing identity and managing Kurds in Iraq / Denise Natali; title: Indigestible lands? Comparing the fates of western Sahara and East Timor / Stephen Zunes; title: Right-sizing over the Jordan: the politics of down-sizing borders / Marc Lynch; title: 'Right-sizing' or 'right-shaping'? Politics, ethnicity, and territory in plural states / Oren Yiftachel; title: Conclusion: right-sizing and the alignment of states and collective identities / Ian S. Lustick