Making States Work
Subtitle: State Failure And The Crisis Of Governance
Contributors: Simon Chesterman (Editor); Michael Ignatieff (Editor); Ramesh Chandra Thakur (Editor)
Publisher: United Nations University Press
Published: May 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9789280811070
Subjects: Constitution: government & the state; Politics/International Relations; Philosophy; Government - National; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Political stability; Political; International Relations - General; Government - General; Social contract; Legitimacy of governments
First sentence: In the wealth of literature on state failure, curiously little attention has been paid to the question of what constitutes state success and what enables a state to succeed.