Statebuilding in fragile countries: What can we learn from past stateness?

Andrea Vaccaro and Rachel M. Gisselquist

No wp-2024-49, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Supporting state capacity is a priority for the international community, yet the record of internationally supported statebuilding to date has been mixed at best. A key question for continuing research concerns the factors influencing more versus less successful interventions. We show that the quality of past 'stateness' is crucial in understanding contemporary state fragility and statebuilding.

Keywords: Fragile states; Statebuilding; Violence; Bureaucracy; State capacity; State fragility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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