Handbook of fragile states. ([2023])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by David Carment (professor of international affairs) and Yiagadeesen Samy (professor of international affairs, The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada).
• Editors: Carment, David; Samy, Yiagadeesen
• Other Names: Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.
• Contents: 1. Introduction to the handbook of fragile states / David Carment and Yiagadeesen Samy -- 2. Investigating the root causes of fragility / Sonja Grimm -- 3. Transforming conception(s) of state fragility and new containment interventions / Nicolas Lemay-Hébert and Babatunde F. Obamamoye -- 4. Current conceptualizations and measurements of state fragility: Recent developments and remaining limits / Ines A. Ferreira -- 5. The United States is vulnerable: A flashing red light in the fragile states Index / Nate Haken and Natalie Fiertz -- 6. The case for measuring multidimensional fragility: Is disaggregation the answer? / Harsh Desai (OECD) and Jonathan Marley (OECD) -- 7. Strategic approaches in fragile societies: Targeting drivers / Seth D. Kaplan -- 8. Hybrid authority systems and political instability / Monty G. Marshall -- 9. Hybrid political orders in fragile contexts / Tobias Debiel and Stephan Dombrowski -- 10. Implications of fragility for growth, poverty and inequality / Karla Cisneros Rosado and Yiagadeesen Samy -- 11. Just "add women and stir"? Bringing gender into fragility debates / Diana Koester -- 12. The relationship between state fragility and refugees / Charles Martin-Shields -- 13. Climate change and fragility: Improving early warning and climate-proofing development and conflict interventions / Erin Sikorsky, Francesco Femia and Brigitte Hugh -- 14. Urban fragility / Robert Muggah -- 15. Understanding horizontal inequalities: The case of palestinian refugees in jordan / Zina Nimeh -- 16. The African fragility problem / Robert I. Rotberg -- 17. State fragility and sustainable development in the middle east and north Africa / Hamid E. Ali, Mahmoud Elmakkawe and Nesreen Nasser Alanbar -- 18. State fragility trap and conflict in Afghanistan (2001-2021) / Said Yaqub Ibrahimi -- 19. Fragility of small island developing states / Michaël Goujon and Laurent Wagner -- 20. Securitization, divergent agendas and the sectoral allocation of development aid within Afghanistan / Mark McGillivray and Safiullah Taye -- 21. Exiting the fragility trap: Evidence from Bangladesh / David Carment and Emilia Vydelingum -- 22. "nothing about us without us": The g7+ and the new deal / Habib ur Rehman Mayar, Helder da Costa and Felix Piedad -- 23. The EU's approach to fragile states: Conflicting norms, practices, and lessons learnt / Julian Bergmann and Mark Furness -- 24. Coordinating aid in fragile states: The promise of country platforms and principles for effective aid architecture / Rachael Calleja and Sarah Rose -- Index.
• Publisher Details: Cheltenham, UK Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (430 pages)
• Subjects: 320.01/1; Political stability -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Stabilité politique -- Guides, manuels, etc; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781800883475; 1800883471
• Related ISBNs: 9781800883468
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 12, 2023).
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