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Why States Recover: Changing Walking Societies into Winning Nations, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe

Greg Mills

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Description:State failure takes many forms. Somalia offers one extreme. A collapse of central authority as the outcome of a prolonged civil war, where authority descends into competing factions--warlords--around the spoils of local commerce, power and international aid. At the other end of the scale is Malawi under President Bingu. During his abbreviated second term in office, the country's economy collapsed as a result of poor policies and personalised politics. On the surface, save the petrol queues, it was stable; underneath, the polity was fractured and the economy broken. Between these two extremes of state failure are all manner of examples. This book uses field-work based case-studies of more than thirty countries, incorporating interviews with a dozen leaders, to disaggregate various state failures and identify instances of recovery--from Latin America, Asia and Africa, including Afghanistan, Congo, Sierra Leone, Kosovo, Somalia and Somaliland, Venezuela and Zimbabwe--while focusing on a key question: How do countries recover and what roles are there for insiders and outsiders?We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Why States Recover: Changing Walking Societies into Winning Nations, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. To get started finding Why States Recover: Changing Walking Societies into Winning Nations, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 689

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Picador Africa

Release: 2014

ISBN: 1770103252

Description: State failure takes many forms. Somalia offers one extreme. A collapse of central authority as the outcome of a prolonged civil war, where authority descends into competing factions--warlords--around the spoils of local commerce, power and international aid. At the other end of the scale is Malawi under President Bingu. During his abbreviated second term in office, the country's economy collapsed as a result of poor policies and personalised politics. On the surface, save the petrol queues, it was stable; underneath, the polity was fractured and the economy broken. Between these two extremes of state failure are all manner of examples. This book uses field-work based case-studies of more than thirty countries, incorporating interviews with a dozen leaders, to disaggregate various state failures and identify instances of recovery--from Latin America, Asia and Africa, including Afghanistan, Congo, Sierra Leone, Kosovo, Somalia and Somaliland, Venezuela and Zimbabwe--while focusing on a key question: How do countries recover and what roles are there for insiders and outsiders?We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Why States Recover: Changing Walking Societies into Winning Nations, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. To get started finding Why States Recover: Changing Walking Societies into Winning Nations, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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