This book investigates the emergence, the dissemination and the
reception of the notion of state fragility . It analyses the
process of conceptualisation, examining how the fragile states
concept was framed by policy makers to describe reality in
accordance with their priorities in the fields of development and
security. Contributors investigate the instrumental use of the
state fragility label in the legitimisation of Western policy
interventions in countries facing violence and profound poverty.
They also emphasise the agency of actors on the receiving end,
describing how the elites and governments in so-called fragile
states have incorporated and reinterpreted the concept to fit their
own political agendas. A first set of articles examines the role
played by the World Bank, the OECD, the European Union and the G7+
in the transnational diffusion of the concept, which is understood
as a critical element in the new discourse on international aid and
security. A second set of papers employs three case studies (Sudan,
Indonesia and Uganda) to explore the processes of appropriation,
reinterpretation and the strategic use of the fragile state
concept.
This book was originally published as a special issue of "Third
World Quarterly.""
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