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Extralegal Groups in Post-Conflict Liberia : How Trade Makes the State, EPUB eBook

Extralegal Groups in Post-Conflict Liberia : How Trade Makes the State EPUB

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In the aftermath of the Liberian civil war, groups of ex-combatants seized control of natural resource enclaves in the rubber, diamond, and timber sectors.

With some of them threatening a return to war, these groups were widely viewed as the most significant threats to Liberia's hard-won peace.

Building on fieldwork and socio-historical analysis, this book shows how extralegal groups are driven to provide basic governance goods in their bid to create a stablecommercial environment.

This is a story about how their livelihood strategies merged with the opportunities of Liberia's post-war political economy.

But it is also a context-specific story that is rooted in the country's geography, its history of state-making, and its social and political practices.

Thisvolume demonstrates that extralegal groups do not emerge in a vacuum. In areas of limited statehood, where the state is weak and political authority is contested, where rule of law is corrupted and government distrust runs deep, extralegal groups can provide order and dispute resolution, forming the basic kernel of the state.

This logic counters the prevailing 'spoiler' narrative, forcing us to reimagine non-state actors and recast their roles as incidental statebuilders in the evolutionary process of state-making.

This leads to a broader argument: it is trade,rather than war, that drives contemporary statebuilding.

Along the way, this book poses some uncomfortable questions about what it means to be legitimately governed, whether our trust in states is ultimately misplaced, whether entrenched corruption is the most likely post-conflict outcome, and whetherour expectations of international peacebuilding and statebuilding are ultimately self-defeating.

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