Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-300) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- What's in a name? -- History of a concept -- State-building as the solution -- Building an international apparatus for state-building -- The real problem of failed states -- Consequences -- Neither security nor development.
Summary:
"This book presents the origins of the term, how it shaped the conceptual framework for international development and security in the post-Cold War era, and why. The book also questions how specific international interventions on both aid and security fronts - greatly varied by actor - based on these outsiders' perceptions of state failure create conditions that fit their characterizations of failed states"-- Provided by publisher.
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