Fragility, Aid, and State-building

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 di...

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Other Authors: Gisselquist, Rachel M (Editor)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis 2017
Series:ThirdWorlds
Subjects:
Development studies
Politics & government
fragile states
state-building
foreign aid
development
post-conflict reconstruction
Third World Quarterly
Rachel M. Gisselquist
Jörn Grävingholt
Sebastian Ziaja
Merle Kreibaum
Daniel Lambach
Eva Johais
Markus Bayer
David Carment
Joe Landry
Yiagadeesen Samy
Scott Shaw
Jiyoung Kim
Ahmad Helmy Fuady
Devon E.A. Curtis
Berhanu Abegaz
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Summary: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.
ISBN:9781315115344
9781138069718;9780367321772;9781351630337;9781351630313
Access:Open Access

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