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(Post-)colonial state-building and state failure in East Timor: bringing social conflict back in

2010; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 10; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/14678802.2010.500544

1478-1174

Lee Jones,

Political Conflict and Governance

Abstract One potential explanation for the persistent gap between international state-builders' aspirations and achievements is their misguided understanding of states as institutional apparatuses abstracted and separated from society. State-society interpenetration is actually the historical norm, and a proper understanding of state forms requires close analysis of the conflicts between different social forces as they promote state projects that will advance particular interests over others. International state-builders are best conceptualised as merely one—albeit important—party to this ongoing struggle, which state-builders have no realistic hope of taming. The argument is illustrated by the case of East Timor. Both Indonesian and UN efforts to transplant state projects into Timorese society, even when backed by tremendous economic and coercive resources, failed to simply penetrate and dominate, or to create a technically efficient state insulated from, society. 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