Fixing failed states : a framework for rebuilding a fractured world /

Main Author: Ghani, Ashraf, 1949-
Other Authors: Lockhart, Clare.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Defining the context
  • The creeping "sovereignty gap"
  • Reversing history
  • Webs and flows of cooperation
  • Failed politics
  • The promises and perils of aid
  • Defining the state for the twenty-first century
  • Toward a multifunctional view of the state
  • The framework: the ten functions of the state
  • A new agenda for state building
  • International compacts: sovereignty strategies
  • National programs: the challenge of implementation
  • Conclusion: collective power.