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Why States Recover : Changing Walking Societies into Winning Nations, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.

State failure takes many forms. Somalia offers one extreme. A collapse of central authority as the outcome of a prolonged civil war, where authority descends into competing factions-warlords- around the spoils of local commerce, power and international aid. At the other end of the scale is Malawi un...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mills, Greg
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Hurst, 2015.
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  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; About the Author; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART 1: PATHOLOGIES AND THREADS OF FAILURE; 1 Argentina: Living Beyond Means; Cry for me; Peronist, pliant and pernicious; 2 Guinea: A Great Balancing Act; Realising enormous wealth; The cost of bad politics; Arriveés de junta; The growth plan; No mission impossible?; A long and winding road; 3 Haiti: 128 Shades of Grey; Green and brown; Up and down, black and white; Rolling success next door; Haiti's aid business; Bridging the humanitarian-development divide; The underlying reasons of failure
  • Crouching tiger, hidden dragon, frère ennemi?The wrong analysis; Summarising the transitions; Déjà vu all over again?; Similarities; Differences; Lessons; Working on the basics; Afghanistan's aid lessons for others; A view from the trenches; A little extra ammo and a few other things; A good future outcome; 11 The Democratic Republic of Congo: The Invisible State; Systemic governance failure; Election deficits and myths; Few innocents; 12 Iraq to Syria: Matching Legitimacy, Strategy and Resources; The shadow of war; Winning the war, losing the peace; Iraq to Syria: Knowing then, knowing now
  • Strategy not politicsHeed the past; 13 Kosovo: Fifteen Years of Building Peace; The challenge before Kosovo and the international community; Shitet: What has intervention achieved?; Armies of expats; True grit; The rule of law link; Reflecting on intervention; 14 Liberia: Mission with a Long Tail?; Some things stay the same; From war to peace; Tackling the challenges; Signs of success or failure?; Mission with a long tail?; 15 Libya After Regime Change: A Michael Jackson State?; The backdrop; Challenges and advantages; Economic rent-seeking and redistribution