State Failure, Collapse & Reconstruction
Development and Change Special Issues
This book situates state failure and state collapse in historical
context and explains the structures and forces that have led to
state collapse in a number of countries around the world. It also
analyses and critiques contemporary interventions and
reconstruction efforts in collapsed states.
* * Addresses the subject of state failure which has received
high-profile attention from both scholars and policy-makers.
* Examines how and why states collapse.
* Analyses and critiques post-conflict reconstruction
efforts.
* Has contemporary relevance for developments in places such as
East Timor, Afghanistan, Nigeria and Georgia.
* Challenges our assumptions about states and the state
system.
Notes on Contributors.
State Failure, State Collapse and State Reconstruction: Jennifer
Milliken and Keith Krause, Graduate Institute of International
Studies.
Part I: States, Statebuilding and State Collapse:.
1. Putting State Collapse in Context: History, Politics and the
Genealogy of a Concept: Christopher Clapham, Lancaster
University.
2. State Collapse and Fresh Starts: Some Critical
Reflections: Martin Doornbos, Institute of Social Studies.
3.State Collapse and Implications for Peace-Building and
Reconstruction: Alexandros Yannis, Graduate Institute of
International Studies.
Part II: Anatomies of Failure and Collapse:.
4. Collapsing States and Non-Revolutionary Insurgencies: William
Reno, Northwestern University.
5. Rising From the Ashes? The Difficult Rebirth of the Georgian
State: Spyros Demetriou, Graduate Institute of International
Studies.
6. Try Again, Fail Again? Adventures in State-Building in
Afghanistan: Jonathon Goodhand and Christopher Cramer, SOAS.
7. Africa: Private Military Intervention and Arms Proliferation
in the Process of State Decay: Abdel-Fatau Musah, Centre for
Democracy and Development.
8. State Collapse as Business: The Role of Conflict Trade and
the Emerging Control Agenda: Robert Neil Cooper, University of
Plymouth.
Part III: Relief and Reconstruction:.
9. UNTAC in Cambodia: A New Model for Humanitarian Aid in
Collapsed States?: Daniel Chong, School of International Service,
American University.
10. From East Timor to Participatory Intervention: Jarat Chopra,
Brown University.
11. Rebuilding State Institutions in Collapsed States: Marina
Ottaway, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
12. Aid Conditionality as a Tool for Peacebuilding:
Opportunities and Constraints: James Boyce, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst.
13. Reconstructing the Borderlands: Aid as a Relation of Global
Governance: Mark Duffield, University of Leeds.
Index.
State Failure, State Collapse and State Reconstruction: Jennifer
Milliken and Keith Krause, Graduate Institute of International
Studies.
Part I: States, Statebuilding and State Collapse:.
1. Putting State Collapse in Context: History, Politics and the
Genealogy of a Concept: Christopher Clapham, Lancaster
University.
2. State Collapse and Fresh Starts: Some Critical
Reflections: Martin Doornbos, Institute of Social Studies.
3.State Collapse and Implications for Peace-Building and
Reconstruction: Alexandros Yannis, Graduate Institute of
International Studies.
Part II: Anatomies of Failure and Collapse:.
4. Collapsing States and Non-Revolutionary Insurgencies: William
Reno, Northwestern University.
5. Rising From the Ashes? The Difficult Rebirth of the Georgian
State: Spyros Demetriou, Graduate Institute of International
Studies.
6. Try Again, Fail Again? Adventures in State-Building in
Afghanistan: Jonathon Goodhand and Christopher Cramer, SOAS.
7. Africa: Private Military Intervention and Arms Proliferation
in the Process of State Decay: Abdel-Fatau Musah, Centre for
Democracy and Development.
8. State Collapse as Business: The Role of Conflict Trade and
the Emerging Control Agenda: Robert Neil Cooper, University of
Plymouth.
Part III: Relief and Reconstruction:.
9. UNTAC in Cambodia: A New Model for Humanitarian Aid in
Collapsed States?: Daniel Chong, School of International Service,
American University.
10. From East Timor to Participatory Intervention: Jarat Chopra,
Brown University.
11. Rebuilding State Institutions in Collapsed States: Marina
Ottaway, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
12. Aid Conditionality as a Tool for Peacebuilding:
Opportunities and Constraints: James Boyce, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst.
13. Reconstructing the Borderlands: Aid as a Relation of Global
Governance: Mark Duffield, University of Leeds.
Index.
Jennifer Milliken is Assistant Professor at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva. She is the author of The Social Construction of the Korean War: Conflict and its Possibilities (2001).
