Exiting the Fragility Trap : Rethinking Our Approach to the World’s Most Fragile States

Authors

David Carment
Yiagadeesen Samy

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Series

Series in Human Security

Description

State fragility is a much-debated yet underinvestigated concept in the development and international security worlds. Based on years of research as part of the Country Indicators for Foreign Policy project at Carleton University, Exiting the Fragility Trap marks a major step toward remedying the lack of research into the so-called fragility trap. In examining the nature and dynamics of state transitions in fragile contexts, with a special emphasis on states that are trapped in fragility, David Carment and Yiagadeesen Samy ask three questions: Why do some states remain stuck in a fragility trap? What lessons can we learn from those states that have successfully transitioned from fragility to stability and resilience? And how can third-party interventions support fragile state transitions toward resilience?
Carment and Samy consider fragility’s evolution in three state types: countries that are trapped, countries that move in and out of fragility, and countries that have exited fragility. Large-sample empirical analysis and six comparative case studies—Pakistan and Yemen (trapped countries), Mali and Laos (in-and-out countries), and Bangladesh and Mozambique (exited countries)—drive their investigation, which breaks ground toward a new understanding of why some countries fail to see sustained progress over time.

Copyright Statement

Exiting the Fragility Trap © 2019 by Ohio University Press is licensed under Creative Commons License CC BY-NC-ND. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Language

eng

ISBN

9780821446867

Publication Date

10-15-2019

Publisher

Ohio University Press

City

Athens

Keywords

Political Science, Social Science, Governments, Developing Countries, Nation-Building, Political Stability, Fragile States, Failed States, National Security

Disciplines

Political Economy | Political Science | Politics and Social Change

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.

Recommended Citation

Carment, David and Samy, Yiagadeesen, "Exiting the Fragility Trap : Rethinking Our Approach to the World’s Most Fragile States" (2019). Ohio University Press Open Access Books. 51.
https://ohioopen.library.ohio.edu/oupress/51