‘Formal Adoption – Informal Subversion’: Limits of International Constitutional Assistance

IF 2.3 2区社会学 Q1 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding Pub Date : 2023-05-12 DOI:10.1080/17502977.2023.2202490

M. Adhikari

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Peace processes involve reforming or rewriting constitutions as a pathway to establishing an inclusive state, often with international constitutional assistance (ICA). Examining Nepal’s post-conflict constitution-writing process, this article explores why ICA fails to deliver on inclusion. It argues that ICA’s prioritisation of formal aspects – inclusive institutional design and participatory process – makes it unable to influence informal politics through which elites informally subvert formal commitments on inclusive institutions in a bid to retain their power. This ‘formal adoption-informal subversion’ of inclusion-related commitments by elites is enabled by elites adopting four strategies, namely neglect, overwrite, trade-off, and exploit of formal commitments.

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“正式收养-非正式颠覆”：国际宪法援助的局限性

摘要和平进程涉及改革或改写宪法，作为建立一个包容性国家的途径，通常需要国际宪法援助。本文考察了尼泊尔冲突后的宪法起草过程，探讨了ICA未能实现包容性的原因。它认为，ICA对正式方面的优先考虑——包容性的制度设计和参与过程——使其无法影响非正式政治，精英们通过非正式政治颠覆对包容性制度的正式承诺，以保留他们的权力。精英们对包容相关承诺的“正式采用-非正式颠覆”是由精英们采取四种策略促成的，即忽视、改写、权衡和利用正式承诺。

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Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS-

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding is a cross-disciplinary journal devoted to critical analysis of international intervention, focussing on interactions and practices that shape, influence and transform states and societies. In 21st century political practice, states and other actors increasingly strive to transplant what they see as normatively progressive political orders to other contexts. Accordingly, JISB focuses on the complex interconnections and mutually shaping interactions between donor and recipient communities within military, economic, social, or other interventional contexts, and welcomes perspectives on political life of, and beyond, European state-building processes. The journal brings together academics and practitioners from cross-disciplinary backgrounds, including international relations, political science, political economy, sociology, international law, social anthropology, geography, and regional studies. The editors are particularly interested in specific or comparative in-depth analyses of contemporary or historical interventions and state-building processes that are grounded in careful fieldwork and/or innovative methodologies. Multi or cross-disciplinary contributions and theoretically challenging pieces that broaden the study of intervention and state building to encompass processes of decision-making, or the complex interplay between actors on the ground, are especially encouraged.