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The ideology of failed states : why intervention fails

Title
The ideology of failed states : why intervention fails / Susan L. Woodward, City University of New York, Graduate Center.
Author
Woodward, Susan L., 1944 September 6-
Publication
  • Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
  • ©2017

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Description
xvii, 307 pages; 24 cm
Summary
"This book presents the origins of the term, how it shaped the conceptual framework for international development and security in the post-Cold War era, and why. The book also questions how specific international interventions on both aid and security fronts - greatly varied by actor - based on these outsiders' perceptions of state failure create conditions that fit their characterizations of failed states"--
Subject
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-300) and index.
Contents
Introduction -- What's in a name? -- History of a concept -- State-building as the solution -- Building an international apparatus for state-building -- The real problem of failed states -- Consequences -- Neither security nor development.
Call Number
JFE 17-7219
ISBN
  • 9781107176423
  • 1107176425
  • 9781316629581
  • 1316629589
LCCN
  • 2016053741
  • 40027108253
OCLC
962557464
Author
Woodward, Susan L., 1944 September 6- author.
Title
The ideology of failed states : why intervention fails / Susan L. Woodward, City University of New York, Graduate Center.
Publisher
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Copyright Date
©2017
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-300) and index.
Other Standard Identifier
40027108253
Research Call Number
JFE 17-7219
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