Overview
- Takes a novel approach to demonstrate the political and legal significance of the 'fragile states' idea
- Shifts the focus away from the controversial debate on what 'fragile states' are to the question of how they are perceived and responded to, including in legal terms
- Adds to the existing legal scholarship by extending the scope of analysis from rare incidents of complete state collapse to the broader spectrum of limited statehood
Part of the book series: Governance and Limited Statehood (GLS)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
Keywords
- State building
- Development Cooperation
- The State-Centric Development Paradigm
- Program-for-Results Financing
- Asian Development Bank
- African Development Bank
- Juridical Statehood
- Empirical Statehood
- Aid transfer
- Fragile states
- World Bank
- International organizations
- International security
- International law
- Policy decision-making
About this book
This book addresses a conundrum for the international development community: The law of development cooperation poses major constraints on delivering aid where it is needed most. The existence of a state with an effective government is a basic condition for the transfer of aid, making development cooperation with ‘fragile’ nations particularly challenging. The author explores how international organizations like the World Bank have responded by adopting formal and informal rules to engage specifically with countries with weak or no governments. Von Engelhardt provides a critical analysis of the discourse on fragile states and how it has shaped the policy decision-making of international organizations. By demonstrating how perceptions of fragility can have significant consequences both in practice and in law, the work challenges conventional research that dismisses state fragility as a phenomenon beyond law. It also argues that the legal parameters for effective global policy play acrucial role, and offers a fresh approach to a topic that is central to international security and development.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Marie von Engelhardt has worked as a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany. Previously, she was a consultant for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Geneva, Switzerland, and for the World Bank in Nairobi, Kenya, and Washington, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: International Development Organizations and Fragile States
Book Subtitle: Law and Disorder
Authors: Marie von Engelhardt
Series Title: Governance and Limited Statehood
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62695-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-62694-9Published: 10 January 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87373-2Published: 06 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-62695-6Published: 14 December 2017
Series ISSN: 2947-8944
Series E-ISSN: 2947-8952
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 259
Topics: Development Studies, Governance and Government, Emerging Markets/Globalization, Development Economics, International Political Economy, International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict