Fixing fragile states
Subtitle: a new paradigm for development
By: Seth D. Kaplan.
Publisher: Praeger Security International
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9780275998288
Subjects: Political stability -- Developing countries; Developing countries -- Politics and government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Introduction: why fragile states matter; title: Diagnosis; title: Fostering development: the missing ingredients; title: Fragile states, fractured societies; title: Prescriptions; title: A new paradigm for development; title: Application; title: West Africa: stitching a fragmented region together; title: The Democratic Republic of the Congo: constructing the state bottom up; title: Syria: countering sectarianism with unifying institutions; title: Somaliland: reconnecting state and society; title: Bolivia: building representative institutions in a divided country; title: Pakistan: redirecting a country's trajectory; title: Azerbaijan: pressing reform on an autocracy; title: Index.