{"product_id":"fixing-fragile-states-seth-kaplan-9780275998288","title":"Fixing Fragile States: A New Paradigm for Development","description":"\u003cp\u003eFragile states are a menace. Their lawless environments spread instability across borders, provide havens for terrorists, threaten access to natural resources, and consign millions of people to poverty. But Western attempts to reform these benighted places have rarely made things better. Kaplan argues that to avoid revisiting the carnage and catastrophes seen in places like Iraq, Bosnia, and the Congo, the West needs to rethink its ideas on fragile states and start helping their peoples build governments and states that actually fit the local landscape. \u003ci\u003eFixing Fragile States\u003c\/i\u003e lays bare the fatal flaws in current policies and explains why the only way to give these places a chance at peace and prosperity is to rethink how development really works. Flawed governance systems, not corrupt bureaucrats or armed militias, are the cancers that devour weak states. The cure, therefore, is not to send more aid or more peacekeepers but to redesign political, economic, and legal structures-to refashion them so they can leverage local traditions, overcome political fragmentation, expand governance capacities, and catalyze corporate investment. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter dissecting the reasons why some states prosper and others sink into poverty and violence, \u003ci\u003eFixing Fragile States\u003c\/i\u003e visits seven deeply dysfunctional places--including Pakistan, Bolivia, West Africa, and Syria--and explains how even the most desperate of them can be transformed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Seth D. Kaplan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0275998282\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780275998288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Praeger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/08\/2008 pg. 18\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2008 pg. 172","brand":"Seth D. Kaplan","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44311475454207,"sku":"9780275998288","price":79.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_41eaf729-d58f-4be9-9dbd-dbaca88351be.jpg?v=1695722967","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/fixing-fragile-states-seth-kaplan-9780275998288","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}