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Making states work : state failure and the crisis of governance / edited by Simon Chesterman, Michael Ignatieff, and Ramesh Thakur

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Tokyo ; New York : United Nations University Press, [2005]
Copyright Date
©2005
Physical Description
1 online resource (xviii, 400 pages) : maps
Additional Creators
Chesterman, Simon, Ignatieff, Michael, Thakur, Ramesh, 1948-, International Peace Academy, and United Nations University
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Contents
pt. I. Issues -- 1. Policy responses to state failure / Sebastian von Einsiedel -- 2. The legacy of colonialism / James Mayall -- 3. Human rights, power and the state / Michael Ignatieff -- pt. II. Regions -- 4. The Great Lakes and South Central Asia / Andrea Armstrong, Barnett R. Rubin -- 5. Columbia and the Andean crisis / Monica Serrano, Paul Kenny -- 6. The South Pacific / -- pt. III. Margins -- 7. Reviving state legitimacy in Pakistan / Samina Ahmed -- 8. Disintegration and reconstitution in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea / Hazel Smith -- 9. Afghanistan's weak state and strong society / Amin Saikal. and pt. IV. Successes -- 10. Success in Mozambique? / Michel Cahen -- 11. State-building, national leadership and "relative success" in Costa Rica / Abelardo Morales-Gamboa, Stephen Baranyi -- 12. From vulnerability to success: the British withdrawal from Singapore / Patricia Shu Ming Tan, Simon S.C. Tay -- pt. V. Choices -- 13. Early and "early late" prevention / I. William Zartman -- 14. Making humanitarianism work / Thomas G. Weiss, Peter J. Hoffman -- 15. Transitional justice / Alex Boraine -- 16. Transitional administration, state-building and the United Nations / Simon Chesterman -- 17. Conclusion: the future of state-building / Simon Chesterman, Michael Ignatieff, Ramesh Thakur.
Summary
In the wealth of literature on state failure, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the question of what constitutes state success and what enables a state to succeed. This book is a joint project of the International Peace Academy and the United Nations University and examines the strategies and tactics of international actors, local political elites, and civil society groups to build or rebuild public institutions before they reach the point of failure: to make the state work. It is frequently assumed that the collapse of state structures, whether through defeat by an exter-nal power.
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ISBN
1423765966 (electronic bk.)
9781423765967 (electronic bk.)
928081107X (pbk.)
9789280811070 (pbk.)
9789280870879 (electronic bk.)
9280870874 (electronic bk.)
Note
"A Project of the International Peace Academy and the United Nations University."
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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