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Conflict and Fragility The State's Legitimacy in Fragile Situations
Author: Conflict and Fragility The State's Legitimacy in Fragile Situations Unpacking Complexity
Author: OECDPublisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 926408388X
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Languages : en
Pages : 67
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State legitimacy matters because it transforms power into authority and provides the basis for rule by consent, rather than by coercion. In fragile situations, a lack of legitimacy undermines constructive relations between the state and society, and ...
State Legitimacy in a Fragile Context
Author: Marc De SantisPublisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 3643803044
Category : Colombia
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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During the course of the last decades, the state experienced a revival on the scene of international development as there has been a growing acknowledgment amongst the international development community that the state plays a key role in enabling development in a specific society. Therefore, the role of the state and especially the concept of state-building have occupied a central place in the development discourse. In that respect, a growing interest has manifested itself in the discussion and analysis around so-called "fragile states". The author discussed the development discourse around that state-building paradigm in general and focuses through its field research in Colombia specifically on the question of the state legitimacy in so-called fragile contexts.
Health financing in fragile and conflict-affected situations
Author: Publisher: World Health Organization
ISBN: 9240003495
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Conflict and Fragility Preventing Violence, War and State Collapse The Future of Conflict Early Warning and Response
Author: OECDPublisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9264059814
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Languages : en
Pages : 134
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Based on literature review and inputs from surveyed agencies, this book assesses the value and role of early warning for the prevention of violent conflict and identifies the most effective systems.
Fragile States
Author: Lothar BrockPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0745659519
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Today a billion people, including about 340 million of the world's extreme poor, are estimated to live in 'fragile states'. This group of low-income countries are often trapped in cycles of conflict and poverty, which make them acutely vulnerable to a range of shocks and crises. This engaging book defines and clarifies what we mean by fragile states, examining their characteristics in relation to "weak" and "failed" states in the global system, and explaining their development from pre-colonial times to the present day. It explores the connections between fragile statehood and violent conflict, and analyses the limitations of outside intervention from international society. The complexities surrounding 'successes' such as Costa Rica and Botswana - countries which ought to be fragile, but which are not - are analysed alongside the more precarious cases of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Afghanistan and Haiti. Absorbing and authoritative, Fragile States will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of international relations, security studies and development.
International Development Organizations and Fragile States
Author: Marie von EngelhardtPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319626957
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
This book addresses a conundrum for the international development community: The law of development cooperation poses major constraints on delivering aid where it is needed most. The existence of a state with an effective government is a basic condition for the transfer of aid, making development cooperation with ‘fragile’ nations particularly challenging. The author explores how international organizations like the World Bank have responded by adopting formal and informal rules to engage specifically with countries with weak or no governments. Von Engelhardt provides a critical analysis of the discourse on fragile states and how it has shaped the policy decision-making of international organizations. By demonstrating how perceptions of fragility can have significant consequences both in practice and in law, the work challenges conventional research that dismisses state fragility as a phenomenon beyond law. It also argues that the legal parameters for effective global policy play a crucial role, and offers a fresh approach to a topic that is central to international security and development.
The Political Invention of Fragile States
Author: Sonja GrimmPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317625447
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
This book investigates the emergence, the dissemination and the reception of the notion of ‘state fragility’. It analyses the process of conceptualisation, examining how the ‘fragile states’ concept was framed by policy makers to describe reality in accordance with their priorities in the fields of development and security. Contributors investigate the instrumental use of the ‘state fragility’ label in the legitimisation of Western policy interventions in countries facing violence and profound poverty. They also emphasise the agency of actors ‘on the receiving end’, describing how the elites and governments in so-called ‘fragile states’ have incorporated and reinterpreted the concept to fit their own political agendas. A first set of articles examines the role played by the World Bank, the OECD, the European Union and the G7+ in the transnational diffusion of the concept, which is understood as a critical element in the new discourse on international aid and security. A second set of papers employs three case studies (Sudan, Indonesia and Uganda) to explore the processes of appropriation, reinterpretation and the strategic use of the ‘fragile state’ concept. This book was originally published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.
Poverty Reduction and Pro-Poor Growth The Role of Empowerment
Author: OECDPublisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9264168354
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Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Empowerment of those living in poverty is both a critical driver and an important measure of poverty reduction. This report aims to build donor understanding of empowerment and how best to support it.
Catalyzing Development
Author: Homi J. KharasPublisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 0815721331
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
"Provides analysis of how the field of international aid is changing with new approaches necessary because of new actors providing assistance, including middle-income countries, private philanthropists, and the private sector, and new challenges, including climate change and the large number of fragile states"--Provided by publisher.
