State Failure, Collapse & Reconstruction

This book situates state failure and state collapse in historical context and explains the structures and forces that have led to state collapse in a number of countries around the world. It also analyses and critiques contemporary interventions and reconstruction efforts in collapsed states.

• Addresses the subject of state failure which has received high-profile attention from both scholars and policy-makers.
  
• Examines how and why states collapse.
  
• Analyses and critiques post-conflict reconstruction efforts.
  
• Has contemporary relevance for developments in places such as East Timor, Afghanistan, Nigeria and Georgia.
  
• Challenges our assumptions about states and the state system.