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POST-CRISIS STATES TRANSFORMATION: RETHINKING THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE STATE

01.05.2009 - 05.05.2009

Hotel Scandic Linköping Väst
Linköping

Schweden
apiccolotto@esf.org

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the focus of this conference is the question of the model of the State and its transformation. Far from basing itself on the Weberian concept of the State, the conference takes the expectations and needs of the population as a foundation for State transformation.
The link between legitimacy and stability established decades ago by Max Weber still sounds very contemporary when considering post-conflict contexts: there is no possibility of recourse to coercion to impose a political system in the long term. A key question during the conference therefore is how to assist in the (trans)formation of States so that they can function in the interests of populations at local, national and international level.