Part III: Engaging and Containing Weak States Week 7: Reward and Rebuild [March 3, 2014] What have been the general approaches to rebuilding weak states? What have been the criticisms of these approaches? Readings: Weak and Failed States: Foreign Intervention and the Christopher Coyne, “Reconstructing vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 343-360, October 2006. Foreign Policy Analysis, Nirvana Fallacy,” Natasha Ezrow and Erica Frantz. Building, Foreign Failed States and Institutional Decay. “State Aid, and Bloomsbury: London, 2013, chp. 9, pp. 285-314. Interventions.” Michael Mazarr, Rise and Fall of the Failed-State vol. 93, Foreign Affairs, “The Paradigm.” issue 1, pp. 113-121. Pierre Englebert and in International Denis M. Tull, “Postconflict Reconstruction Africa,” Vol. 32, No. 4, Spring 2008, pp. 106-139. Security, Ulrich Schneckener, Building or New Modes of Governance? The Effects of International “State Involvement in Areas of in ed. Thomas Risse. Governance without a State, Limited Statehood,” New York: Columbia University Press, 2011, chp. 9. Fukuyama, Francis and Michael McFaul. "Should Democracy Be Promoted or Demoted?" The Washington Quarterly 31.1 (2008): 23-45 http://www.mafhoum.com/press10/312P6.pdf References: Asian Development Bank Development Effectiveness in Weakly Performing “Achieving Member Countries,” April 2007, Stephen to Fragile States, Do Donors Help or United Nations University Browne, “Aid Hinder?” Discussion Paper No. 2007/01, DFID, States and “Building Peaceful Societies,” 2010. James Dobbins, et al. America's Role in Nation-Building From Germany to Iraq. RAND Corporation, Available at: http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1753 (Read executive summary, skim rest as inclined) Ashraf Ghani and Clare Lockhart, Fixing Failed States: A Framework for Rebuilding a Chapter 5. Fractured World,”
Part III: Engaging and Containing Weak States Week 7: Reward and Rebuild [March 3, 2014] What have been the general approaches to rebuilding weak states? What have been the criticisms of these approaches? Readings: Christopher Coyne, “Reconstructing Weak and Failed States: Foreign Intervention and the Nirvana Fallacy,” Foreign Policy Analysis, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 343-360, October 2006. Natasha Ezrow and Erica Frantz. Failed States and Institutional Decay. “State Building, Foreign Aid, and Interventions.” Bloomsbury: London, 2013, chp. 9, pp. 285-314. Michael Mazarr, “The Rise and Fall of the Failed-State Paradigm.” Foreign Affairs, vol. 93, issue 1, pp. 113-121. Pierre Englebert and Denis M. Tull, “Postconflict Reconstruction in Africa,” International Security, Vol. 32, No. 4, Spring 2008, pp. 106-139. Ulrich Schneckener, “State Building or New Modes of Governance? The Effects of International Involvement in Areas of Limited Statehood,” in Governance without a State, ed. Thomas Risse. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011, chp. 9. Fukuyama, Francis and Michael McFaul. "Should Democracy Be Promoted or Demoted?" The Washington Quarterly 31.1 (2008): 23-45 http://www.mafhoum.com/press10/312P6.pdf References: Asian Development Bank “Achieving Development Effectiveness in Weakly Performing Member Countries,” April 2007, Stephen Browne, “Aid to Fragile States, Do Donors Help or Hinder?” United Nations University Discussion Paper No. 2007/01, DFID, “Building Peaceful States and Societies,” 2010. James Dobbins, et al. America's Role in Nation-Building From Germany to Iraq. RAND Corporation, Available at: http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1753 (Read executive summary, skim rest as inclined) Ashraf Ghani and Clare Lockhart, Fixing Failed States: A Framework for Rebuilding a Fractured World,” Chapter 5.
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