Mills Greg - Why States Recover Changing Walking Societies Into Winning Nations From Afghanistan To Zimbabwe - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
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?
Title: Why States Recover Changing Walking Societies Into Winning Nations From Afghanistan To Zimbabwe
Author(s): Mills Greg
Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Barcode: 9781849044615
Pages: 320 Pages, Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 3/1/2015
Category: Comparative Politics