The ideology of failed states : why intervention fails / Susan L. Woodward, City University of New York, Graduate Center.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Woodward, Susan L., 1944 September 6- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Failed states.

Physical Description:

xvii, 307 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

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"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-300) and index.

ISBN:

9781107176423

1107176425

9781316629581

1316629589

OCLC:

962557464