TY  - GEN
AU  - Gisselquist,Rachel M
AU  - Gisselquist,Rachel M
TI  - Fragility, Aid, and State-building
SN  - 9781315115344
PY  - 2017///
PB  - Taylor & Francis
KW  - Development studies
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Politics & government
KW  - fragile states
KW  - state-building
KW  - foreign aid
KW  - development
KW  - post-conflict reconstruction
KW  - Third World Quarterly
KW  - Rachel M. Gisselquist
KW  - Jörn Grävingholt
KW  - Sebastian Ziaja
KW  - Merle Kreibaum
KW  - Daniel Lambach
KW  - Eva Johais
KW  - Markus Bayer
KW  - David Carment
KW  - Joe Landry
KW  - Yiagadeesen Samy
KW  - Scott Shaw
KW  - Jiyoung Kim
KW  - Ahmad Helmy Fuady
KW  - Devon E.A. Curtis
KW  - Berhanu Abegaz
N1  - Open Access
N2  - 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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