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Fragility, Aid, and State-building - Understanding Diverse Trajectories (Paperback)
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Fragility, Aid, and State-building - Understanding Diverse Trajectories (Paperback)
Series: ThirdWorlds
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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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