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Susan L. Woodward - The Ideology of Failed States: Why Intervention Fails - 9781107176423 - V9781107176423
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The Ideology of Failed States: Why Intervention Fails

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Description for The Ideology of Failed States: Why Intervention Fails Hardback. .
What do we mean when we use the term 'failed states'? This book presents the origins of the term, how it shaped the conceptual framework for international development and security in the post-Cold War era, and why. The book also questions how specific international interventions on both aid and security fronts - greatly varied by actor - based on these outsiders' perceptions of state failure create conditions that fit their characterizations of failed states. Susan L. Woodward offers details of international interventions in peacebuilding, statebuilding, development assistance, and armed conflict by all these specific actors. The book analyzes the failure ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
324
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107176423
SKU
V9781107176423
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99-2

About Susan L. Woodward
Susan L. Woodward is a professor of political science at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She has more than twelve years' policy experience, including nine from 1990 at the Brookings Institution, Washington DC, where she wrote Balkan Tragedy (1994). Woodward has been interviewed frequently on television and radio, and has given congressional and House of ... Read more

Reviews for The Ideology of Failed States: Why Intervention Fails
'The Ideology of Failed States reflects a lifetime of professional engagement with the subject of intervention in weak, war-torn and fragile states. Constructed as an extended critique of the concept of 'state failure', its institutionalisation, and the uses to which the term has been put, mainly by Western governments and Western-dominated institutions, Woodward persuasively and very effectively demonstrates that the ... Read more

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