Why states recover : changing walking societies into winning nations - from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe
- Author/Creator:
- Mills, Greg, 1962- author
- Publication/Creation:
- London, [England] : Hurst & Company, 2014
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
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- Full Title:
- Why states recover : changing walking societies into winning nations - from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe / Greg Mills
Subjects/Genre
- Subjects:
- Economic history
Economic development
Nation-building
Social history
Asia--Economic conditions
Asia--Politics and government
Description/Summary
- Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; About the Author; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART 1: PATHOLOGIES AND THREADS OF FAILURE; 1 Argentina: Living Beyond Means; Cry for me; Peronist, pliant and pernicious; 2 Guinea: A Great Balancing Act; Realising enormous wealth; The cost of bad politics; Arriveés de junta; The growth plan; No mission impossible?; A long and winding road; 3 Haiti: 128 Shades of Grey; Green and brown; Up and down, black and white; Rolling success next door; Haiti's aid business; Bridging the humanitarian-development divide; The underlying reasons of failure
Crouching tiger, hidden dragon, frère ennemi?The wrong analysis; Summarising the transitions; Déjà vu all over again?; Similarities; Differences; Lessons; Working on the basics; Afghanistan's aid lessons for others; A view from the trenches; A little extra ammo and a few other things; A good future outcome; 11 The Democratic Republic of Congo: The Invisible State; Systemic governance failure; Election deficits and myths; Few innocents; 12 Iraq to Syria: Matching Legitimacy, Strategy and Resources; The shadow of war; Winning the war, losing the peace; Iraq to Syria: Knowing then, knowing now
Strategy not politicsHeed the past; 13 Kosovo: Fifteen Years of Building Peace; The challenge before Kosovo and the international community; Shitet: What has intervention achieved?; Armies of expats; True grit; The rule of law link; Reflecting on intervention; 14 Liberia: Mission with a Long Tail?; Some things stay the same; From war to peace; Tackling the challenges; Signs of success or failure?; Mission with a long tail?; 15 Libya After Regime Change: A Michael Jackson State?; The backdrop; Challenges and advantages; Economic rent-seeking and redistribution
Lessons from the international post-conflict campaign - Summary:
- First major book to counter ""doom and gloom"" thesis on state failure and inability of outside parties to put things right, arguing that broken states can be fixed -- and for the long term.
- Language:
- English
- Language Note:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- 1 online resource (706 p.)
- General Note:
- Description based upon print version of record.
Additional Identifiers
- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 9936877850102486
- ISBN:
- 1-84904-540-2
1-84904-539-9 - OCLC Number:
- 958573066
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