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Fragility, Aid, and State-building
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Fragile states pose major development and security challenges. Considerable international resources are therefore devoted to state-building and institutional strengthening in fragile states, with generally mixed results. This volume explores how unpacking the concept of fragility and studying its dimensions and forms can help to build policy-relevant understandings of how states become more resilient and the role of aid therein. It highlights the particular challenges for donors in dealing with ‘chronically’ (as opposed to ‘temporarily’) fragile states and those with weak legitimacy, as well as how unpacking fragility can provide traction on how to take ‘local context’ into account. Three chapters present new analysis from innovative initiatives to study fragility and fragile state transitions in cross-national perspective. Four chapters offer new focused analysis of selected countries, drawing on comparative methods and spotlighting the role of aid versus historical, institutional and other factors. It has become a truism that one-size-fits-all policies do not work in development, whether in fragile or non-fragile states. This is should not be confused with a broader rejection of ‘off-the-rack’ policy models that can then be further adjusted in particular situations. Systematic thinking about varieties of fragility helps us to develop this range, drawing lessons – appropriately – from past experience. This book was originally published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly, and is available online as an Open Access monograph at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351630337.
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Keywords
- African Led International Support Mission
- Ahmad Helmy Fuady
- Berhanu Abegaz
- Bertelsmann Transformation Index
- Cross-national Time Series Data Archive
- Daniel Lambach
- David Carment
- Devon E.A. Curtis
- Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility Programme
- Eva Johais
- Gdp Growth
- Jiyoung Kim
- Joe Landry
- Jörn Grävingholt
- Markus Bayer
- Merle Kreibaum
- Physical Integrity Violations
- Political Instability Index
- Real Gdp
- state fragility
- State’s Structural Properties
- thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTP Development studies
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPS International relations::JPSN International institutions
- thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCM Development economics and emerging economies
- Uppsala Conflict Data Program
- West Germany
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DOI: 10.4324/9781315115344Editions