Fixing fragile states a new paradigm for development
Title:
Fixing fragile states a new paradigm for development
Author:
Kaplan, Seth D.
ISBN:
9780275998295
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Publication Information:
Westport, Conn. : Praeger Security International, 2008.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xv, 215 p.) : ill., maps.
Contents:
Introduction: why fragile states matter -- Part I: Diagnosis -- Fostering development: the missing ingredients -- Fragile states, fractured societies -- Part II: Prescriptions -- A new paradigm for development -- Part III: Application -- West Africa: stitching a fragmented region together -- The Democratic Republic of the Congo: constructing the state bottom up -- Syria: countering sectarianism with unifying institutions -- Somaliland: reconnecting state and society -- Bolivia: building representative institutions in a divided country -- Pakistan: redirecting a country's trajectory -- Azerbaijan: pressing reform on an autocracy.
Abstract:
Fragile states are a menace. Their lawless environments spread instability across borders, provide havens for terrorists, threaten access to natural resources, and consign millions of people to poverty. But Western attempts to reform these benighted places have rarely made things better. Kaplan argues that to avoid revisiting the carnage and catastrophes seen in places like Iraq, Bosnia, and the Congo, the West needs to rethink its ideas on fragile states and start helping their peoples build governments and states that actually fit the local landscape. Fixing Fragile States lays bare the fata.
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