1st Edition
Managing State Fragility Conflict, Quantification and Power
By Isabel Rocha de Siqueira
Copyright 2017
236 Pages
by
Routledge
236 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book examines the management of ‘state fragility’ and the practices and impacts of quantification over relations of power in international politics.
With the further movement towards quantification, and as technical and technological changes advance, this book argues that certain important quantifying practices can be understood in terms of symbolic power, which is more nuanced and... Read more
Introduction: Aid Engineering: The Correlates of Fragility
1. The Power in Being Practical
2. An Historical Sociology of the Fragile States Label
3. How Quantification Ranks Fragility, Development-And-Conflict
4. 'Good Enough' Politics
5. Efficiency Traps
6. Symbolic Power: The Costs of Engagement and Disengagement
Conclusions: The Case for Subtlety
Biography
Isabel Rocha de Siqueira is Lecturer at the Institute of International Relations, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil, and holds a PhD in International Relations from King’s College London, UK.
