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Summary:

This edited volume explores development in the so-called 'fragile', 'failed' and 'pariah' states. It examines the literature on both fragile states and their development, and offers eleven case studies on countries ranking in the 'very high alert' and 'very high warning' categories in the Fund for Peace Failed States Index. These include unrecognised states and, in order, Sri Lanka, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific, Nepal, Malawi, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Zimbabwe, Myanmar and North Korea. The chapters are written by scholars from a diversity of disciplines, including anthropology, development economics, international relations, and development studies. Each contributor presents an assessment of the countries' sociopolitical contexts and how these are related to the crosscutting themes of actor roles, development approaches and/or modalities, providing a critique of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and other fragile state development principles.

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: pt. I Theory and Themes, Complexity and Challenges
• 1. Beyond the Usual Suspects: Complexity of Fragility and Analytical Framework / Anthony Ware
• 2. Development in Fragile States and Situations: Theory and Critique / Vicki-Ann Ware
• 3. Challenges of Development in Difficult Sociopolitical Contexts / Damien Kingsbury
• pt. II Case Studies: Development in So-Called ̀Fragile States', ̀Failed States' and ̀Pariah States'
• 4. Surviving in a Difficult Context: The Quest for Development in Unrecognised States / Costas Laoutides
• 5. Foreign Aid Delivery: Modes and Modalities in the Pacific / Jaclyn Donahue
• 6. Malawi: Waving or Drowning in the 21st Century? / Max Kelly
• 7. Development in Kyrgyzstan: Failed State or Failed State-building? / Cai Wilkinson
• 8. Foreign Aid, Development and Civil War in Nepal / Kishor Sharma
• 9. Dynamics of Fragility: Secret Victories and Political Awakenings in Sri Lanka's Civil War / Rohan Bastin
• 10. Re-engaging in a Fragmented Context: Development Approaches and Aid Modalities in Afghanistan, 2001
• 2004 / Nematullah Bizhan
• 11. Zimbabwe: Issues and Perspectives on Fragility and Failure / Jonathan Makuwira
• 12. Development in a Fragile Pariah State: Myanmar 1990
• 2010 / Anthony Ware
• 13. North Korea: Failed State or Pariah, or Both....? / John McKay
• pt. III Conclusion
• 14. Critiques and Alternatives: Development in Contexts of Fragility / Anthony Ware.

Contributors:

Ware, Anthony, 1966- , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Related Series:

Rethinking international development series

Subjects:

Developing countries — Economic conditions — Case studies

Developing countries — Social conditions — Case studies

Economic development — Developing countries — Case studies

Failed states — Case studies

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

HC59.7 .D48 2014eb

ISBNs:

9781137347633 (electronic bk.)
1137347635 (electronic bk.)
9781137347626 [Invalid]
1137347627 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

893665714

Other Control Numbers:

EBC1837284 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp11721041