Fixing Failed States

A Framework for Rebuilding a Fractured World

Ashraf Ghani, Clare Lockhart (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2009
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-539861-8 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

Today between forty and sixty nations, home to more than one billion people, have either collapsed or are teetering on the brink of failure. The world's worst problems--terrorism, drugs and human trafficking, absolute poverty, ethnic conflict, disease, genocide--originate in such states, and the international community has devoted billions of dollars to solving the problem. Yet by and large the effort has not succeeded.
Ashraf Ghani and Clare Lockhart have taken an active part in the effort to save failed states for many years, serving as World Bank officials, as advisers to the UN, and as high-level participants in the new government of Afghanistan. In Fixing Failed States, they describe the issue--vividly and convincingly--offering an on-the-ground picture of why past efforts have not worked and advancing a groundbreaking new solution to this most pressing of global crises. For the paperback edition, they have added a new preface that addresses the continuing crisis in light of ongoing governance problems in weak states like Afghanistan and the global financial recession. As they explain, many of these countries already have the resources they need, if only we knew how to connect them to global knowledge and put them to work in the right way. Their state-building strategy, which assigns responsibility equally among the international community, national leaders, and citizens, maps out a clear path to political and economic stability. The authors provide a practical framework for achieving these ends, supporting their case with first-hand examples of struggling territories such as Afghanistan, Sudan, Kosovo and Nepal as well as the world's success stories--Singapore, Ireland, and even the American South.

Ashraf Ghani played a central role in the design and implementation of the post-Taliban settlement in Afghanistan, serving as UN adviser to the Bonn process and as Finance Minister during Afghanistan's Transitional Administration. He has worked at the World Bank and taught at Johns Hopkins and Berkeley universities. He has been nominated for the job of Secretary General of the United Nations and considered for the job of President of the World Bank. He chairs the Institute for State Effectiveness. Clare Lockhart is presently an advisor to General Patraeus. She has worked for the World Bank and the United Nations and advised the Government of Afghanistan in Kabul on its strategy and programs from 2002 to 2005.

Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part One: Defining the Context
1. The Creeping "Sovereignty Gap"
2. Reversing History
3. Webs and Flows of Cooperation
4. Failed Politics
5. The Promises and Perils of Aid

Part Two: Defining the State For the Twenty-First Century
6. Toward a Multifunctional View of the State
7. The Framework: The Ten Functions of the State

Part Three: A New Agenda For State Building
8. International Compacts: Sovereignty Strategies
9. National Programs: The Challenge of Implementation

Conclusion: Collective Power
Afterward
Notes
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	26.11.2009
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	231 x 155 mm
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
ISBN-10	0-19-539861-0 / 0195398610
ISBN-13	978-0-19-539861-8 / 9780195398618
Zustand	Neuware