The Political Invention of Fragile States

This book investigates the emergence, the dissemination and the reception of the notion of ‘state fragility’. It analyses the process of conceptualisation, examining how the ‘fragile states’ concept was framed by policy makers to describe reality in accordance with their priorities in the fields of development and security. _x005F_x000D_ This book was originally published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.