Fixing Failed States
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
Published: March 28, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780195342697
Subjects: Development economics; Institutions & organizations: general; International economic & trade law; International economics; International relations; Settlement of international disputes; Political Science; Legal Reference / Law Profession; Politics/International Relations; Government - Comparative; International; International Relations - General; Political Science / Foreign Legal Systems; Developing Countries
Description: Pt. 1. Defining the context -- The creeping "sovereignty gap"--Reversing history -- Webs and flows of cooperation -- Failed politics -- The politics and perils of aid -- Pt. 2. Defining the state for the twenty-first century -- Toward a multifunctional view of the state -- The framework: the ten functions of the state -- Pt. 3. A new agenda for state building -- International compacts: sovereignty strategies -- National programs: the challenge of implementation -- Conclusion: Collective power.