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Introduction: Challenges of State Building, State Reconstruction and National Identity Reconfiguration

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State Building and National Identity Reconstruction in the Horn of Africa

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The central argument of Chap. 1 is that state building, state reconstruction and national identity reconstitution in post-transition societies and in countries that have split demands a radical reorientation. Pursuing the same ideologies of state building and national identity reconstitution that led to state collapse and division is not a sustainable option.

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Bereketeab, R. (2017). Introduction: Challenges of State Building, State Reconstruction and National Identity Reconfiguration. In: Bereketeab, R. (eds) State Building and National Identity Reconstruction in the Horn of Africa . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39892-1_1

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