The ideology of failed states : why intervention fails

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The ideology of failed states : why intervention fails

Susan L. Woodward

Cambridge University Press, 2017

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-300) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

What do we mean when we use the term 'failed states'? This book presents the origins of the term, how it shaped the conceptual framework for international development and security in the post-Cold War era, and why. The book also questions how specific international interventions on both aid and security fronts - greatly varied by actor - based on these outsiders' perceptions of state failure create conditions that fit their characterizations of failed states. Susan L. Woodward offers details of international interventions in peacebuilding, statebuilding, development assistance, and armed conflict by all these specific actors. The book analyzes the failure to re-order the international system after 1991 that the conceptual debate in the early 1990s sought - to the serious detriment of the countries labelled failed or fragile and the concept's packaging of the entire 'third world', despite its growing diversity since the mid-1980s, as one.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. What's in a name?
  • 3. History of a concept
  • 4. State-building as solution
  • 5. Building an international apparatus for state-building
  • 6. The real problem of failed states
  • 7. Consequences
  • 8. Neither security nor development.

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Details

  • NCID
    BB23818931
  • ISBN
    • 9781107176423
    • 9781316629581
  • LCCN
    2016053741
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Cambridge
  • Pages/Volumes
    xvii, 307 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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