Fixing failed states: a framework for rebuilding a fractured world/
Ashraf Ghani and Clare Lockhart
- Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
- x, 254 p. ; 25 cm.
Introduction -- Defining the context -- The creeping "sovereignty gap" -- Reversing history -- Webs and flows of cooperation -- Failed politics -- The promises and perils of aid -- Defining the state for the twenty-first century -- Toward a multifunctional view of the state -- The framework: the ten functions of the state -- A new agenda for state building -- International compacts: sovereignty strategies -- National programs: the challenge of implementation -- Conclusion: collective power.