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- Title
Transformation politischer Ordnung: Ansätze zur Erweiterung des Transformationsbegriffs.
- Authors
Akude, John Enzelea; Daun, Anna; Egner, David; Lambach, Daniel
- Abstract
The article intends to place state weakness, state collapse and their concomitant forms of dominance such as warlord configurations in a wider context of a theory of the transformation of political order. Due to our concern with transformation from statehood to non-state forms of political authority, we start with a discussion of the concept of statehood from which we develop empirical criteria against which the degree of statehood can be measured. Next, we investigate the conflicts and transformations which occur within the frameworks of statehood in order to analyse conflicts which have led to the dissolution of statehood and the establishment of non-state political order(s). We find that the delegitimisation of the political community is the decisive factor for the dissolution of statehood, and that the existence of societal institutions is the criterion for determining whether this process is violent or not. In conclusion, we offer a perspective on the interrelationship between processes of denationalisation and developments in the international system.
- Subjects
POLITICAL science research; POLITICAL community; STATEHOOD (American politics); STATE governments; PRIVATIZATION; SOCIAL institutions; WARLORDISM; POLITICAL systems; POLITICAL participation
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Politik, 2009, Vol 56, Issue 2, p142
- ISSN
0044-3360
- Publication type
Article