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oapen-20.500.12657-242452024-03-22T19:23:20Z Fragility, Aid, and State-building Gisselquist, Rachel M fragile states state-building foreign aid development post-conflict reconstruction Third World Quarterly Rachel M. Gisselquist Jörn Grävingholt Sebastian Ziaja Merle Kreibaum Daniel Lambach Eva Johais Markus Bayer David Carment Joe Landry Yiagadeesen Samy Scott Shaw Jiyoung Kim Ahmad Helmy Fuady Devon E.A. Curtis Berhanu Abegaz thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTP Development studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government 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. 2019-11-21 14:19:59 2020-04-01T09:51:19Z 2020-04-01T09:51:19Z 2017 book 1005886 OCN: 1135849627 9781138069718;9780367321772;9781351630337;9781351630313 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/24245 eng ThirdWorlds application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 1005886.pdf https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315115344 Taylor & Francis 10.4324/9781315115344 10.4324/9781315115344 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 9781138069718;9780367321772;9781351630337;9781351630313 open access
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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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