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State Failure, Collapse & Reconstruction
Contributor(s): Milliken, Jennifer (Editor)
ISBN: 1405105364     ISBN-13: 9781405105361
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
OUR PRICE:   $44.50  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: August 2003
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General
- Political Science | Globalization
- Philosophy | Political
Dewey: 320.011
Series: Development and Change Special Issues
Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6.58" W x 9" (1.08 lbs) 336 pages
 
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This book situates state failure and state collapse in historical context and explains the structures and forces that have led to state collapse in a number of countries around the world. It also analyses and critiques contemporary interventions and reconstruction efforts in collapsed states.

  • Addresses the subject of state failure which has received high-profile attention from both scholars and policy-makers.
  • Examines how and why states collapse.
  • Analyses and critiques post-conflict reconstruction efforts.
  • Has contemporary relevance for developments in places such as East Timor, Afghanistan, Nigeria and Georgia.
  • Challenges our assumptions about states and the state system.