1st Edition

Fragility, Aid, and State-building Understanding Diverse Trajectories

Edited By Rachel M. Gisselquist Copyright 2017
156 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. Introduction: Varieties of fragility: implications for aid Rachel M. Gisselquist  2. Disaggregating state fragility: a method to establish a multidimensional empirical typology Jörn Grävingholt, Sebastian Ziaja and Merle Kreibaum  3. Conceptualising state collapse: an institutionalist approach Daniel Lambach, Eva Johais and Markus Bayer  4. Towards a theory of fragile state transitions: evidence from Yemen, Bangladesh and Laos David Carment, Joe Landry, Yiagadeesen Samy and Scott Shaw  5. Aid and state transition in Ghana and South Korea Jiyoung Kim  6. Aid and policy preferences in oil-rich countries: comparing Indonesia and Nigeria Ahmad Helmy Fuady  7. Development assistance and the lasting legacies of rebellion in Burundi and Rwanda Devon E.A. Curtis  8. Aid, accountability and institution building in Ethiopia: the self-limiting nature of technocratic aid Berhanu Abegaz

Biography

Rachel M. Gisselquist is a political scientist and currently a Research Fellow with UNU-WIDER. She works on the politics of the developing world, with particular attention to ethnic politics and group-based inequality, state fragility, governance, and democratization in sub-Saharan Africa. She holds a PhD from MIT.