RebeLeg: Legacies of violence, rebels and post-conflict state formation

战争是如何形成国家的？RebeLeg解释了冲突后国家形成的变化。它发展了一个原创的分析框架，将国家形成理论与反叛治理和内战研究相结合，系统地回答了其核心研究问题：暴力冲突和武装运动的遗产如何影响战后的国家建立？国家对国内和国际稳定至关重要，但人们对它们的出现仍然知之甚少，尤其是在欧洲以外。大量文献讨论了国家建立的外部维度，并讨论了国际国家建设在（后）冲突环境中稳定弱小或失败国家的潜力。然而，这场辩论忽略了一个事实，即国家地位通常不是来自或在国际干预的背景下产生的，而是来自国内主导的进程。为了填补这一空白，RebeLeg从内战中获胜的武装运动开始分析，从内向外的角度审视冲突后国家形成的过程。利用其新颖的分析框架，RebeLeg研究了两个非洲地区——非洲之角和南部非洲——并通过系统比较解释了厄立特里亚、索马里兰、纳米比亚和津巴布韦冲突后国家形成的不同轨迹。它的案例研究结合了过程追踪和比较法，并依赖于二次资源和实地调查的原始数据。RebeLeg的研究结果将有助于更好地理解冲突后国家的形成。这些高度相关的发现将促进对冲突后国家的国际支持，并可以为摆脱阿富汗或伊拉克等失败的军事化干预提供新方法。

How does war make states? RebeLeg explains variation in post-conflict state formation. It develops an original analytical framework integrating theories of state formation and research on rebel governance and civil war to systematically answer its core research question: how does the legacy of violent conflict and armed movements impact post-war state-making? States are crucial for domestic and international stability, yet their emergence remains poorly understood particularly beyond Europe. A vast literature has addressed the external dimension of state-making and debated the potential of international state-building to stabilize weak or failing states in (post-)conflict settings. What this debate has however neglected is that statehood usually does not emerge from, or in the context of, international intervention but instead from domestically-led processes. To fill this gap, RebeLeg examines processes of post-conflict state formation from an inside-out perspective by starting the analysis from victorious armed movements engaged in civil wars. Drawing on its novel analytical framework, RebeLeg studies two African regions - the Horn of Africa and Southern Africa - and explains the varying trajectories of post-conflict state formation in Eritrea, Somaliland, Namibia and Zimbabwe through systematic comparisons. Its case studies combine process tracing and the comparative method and rely both onsecondary resources and primary data from field research. RebeLeg's results will contribute to a significantly better understanding of post-conflict state formation. These highly relevant findings will facilitate international support for post-conflict states and can inform a new approach moving away from failing militarised interventions as in Afghanistan or Iraq.