Extralegal groups in post-conflict Liberia: how trade makes the state
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....
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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 stable commercial 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. This volume demonstrates that extralegal groups do not emerge in a vacuum |
| Beschreibung: | xviii, 365 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme |
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| adam_text | Contents
List of Figures xiv
List of Tables xv
List of Abbreviations xvii
Introduction 1
What is an Extralegal Group? 8
The Research Questions, and Some Answers 10
The Spectrum of Extralegal Groups—from Nascent to Fully
Developed 11
The Extralegal Groups Framework 14
The Argument 17
Definitions 20
Themes of the Book 25
Why Read This Book? 42
Overview of the Book 44
Part I. Extralegal Groups
1. How to Study Extralegal Groups 49
Same Car, Different Driver? Warlords, Organized Crime,
Mafias, Big Men 50
Conflict Capital 54
The Importance of Time Horizons for Governance Provision 60
Research Design and Methodology 62
The Micro-Level and Meso-Level 65
The Importance of Politics, People, and Place 67
Why Liberia? 68
Gathering Data 70
Limitations 72
2. Theoretical Framework 74
Post-Conflict Conditions 75
Emergence of Extralegal Groups 83
Development 89
Entrenchment 90
The Functions of Extralegal Groups 97
Conclusion 102
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Contents
Part II. How Context Matters
3. History and Society 107
The Congo-Native Cleavage 108
Pacifying the Interior 115
Firestone: A Model for Extralegal Groups 119
The Open Door Policy 124
Conclusion 126
4. Civil War 127
The State Disintegrates 128
Natural Resources 130
Conflict Capital in the Fighting Factions 150
The End of War 154
Conclusion 158
Part III. Economic Sectors
5. Rubber 161
Liberia’s Rubber Industry 163
The Guthrie Group 166
The Sinoe Group 183
Other Plantations 193
Conclusion 200
6. Diamonds 203
Liberia’s Diamond Industry 206
The Butaw Oil Palm Company (BOPC) Group 214
Conclusion 225
7. Timber 227
Pit Sawing in Liberia 230
UN Sanctions, the FDA Ban, and Post-Conflict Timber 234
Conflict Capital and the Nezoun Group 237
Concessions Uncertainty and Extralegal Groups 248
Conclusion 249
Part IV. Trade Makes the State
8. Conclusion: Extralegal Groups are Statebuilders 253
Theoretical Insights 254
Escaping the State of Nature 258
Rethinking the International Community’s Approach to Statebuilding 271
Policy Principles for Dealing with Extralegal Groups 275
Beyond Liberia: Extralegal Groups in Other Settings 281
Final Reflections 283
Contents
xiii
9. Coda. Research Design Scaffolding 285
Changing the Conversation: The Fiction of Tidy Research 286
The Research Question 287
The Rationale for Showing Your Work 289
Extralegal Groups: Unveiling the Scaffolding 291
Exploring Alternative Explanations 299
Uncovering Biases and Assumptions 300
Conclusion 305
Appendix A. Statistics on Killings 307
What Do We Know? 308
Violations and Killings over Time 308
Statistics on Displacement 310
References 313
Index 349
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