POLI 324 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Fallacy, Issaq, First Congo War
11 Apr 2017
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Expanding international efforts to promote rule of law in violent conflict. A strategy of institutionalization before liberalization might be advisable, embedding and reforming structures of law and government as to manage the inevitable social conflict that attends liberalization. Implicit assumption that institutional reform is neutral, and thus able to contain political contestation, rather than being a political activity in itself. Many post-colonial leaders relied on control and patronage through capturing power over economy rather than through the state via a functioning admin, independent legal apparatus. Essential operating codes for politics: exercise of personalized exchange and corruption internalized and have constituted. Un a central actor in many countries due to peacekeeping missions. Rule of law is the juridical conception and mechanism that presides over the functioning of the state. Emphasise formal requisites for the creation and enforcement of law, depending on the different legal tradition.
