Present a paper based on AS1 and its feedback for improvements (equivalent to 1,000 words)

Conference Presentation

Research Essay

This module examines Western statebuilding in non-western societies during the imperial, decolonisation and post-colonial neo-liberal eras. It does so in order to understand the similarities and dissimilarities of statebuilding between these different eras, and thus provide essential historical context for understanding contemporary statebuilding experiments in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. It predominantly focuses on India, Middle East and Africa in telling the story of Western statebuilding, and the way local societies and elites have persistently shaped and transformed supposedly universalist agendas in highly specific cultural contexts.

Colonial and post-colonial statebuilding in the 19th to 21st Centuries - 7105IR

Colonial and post-colonial statebuilding in the 19th to 21st Centuries

Analyse the changes and continuities over time in the objectives and outcomes of such projects.

Understand and evaluate the historical origins of western state-building projects in the non-western world.

Evaluate the historical record – success and failure – of these state-building projects.