Making States Work: State Failure and the Crisis of Governance
State Failure and the Crisis of Governance
Editor: Simon Chesterman, Editor: Michael Ignatieff, Editor: Ramesh Chandra Thakur
United Nations University (Japan), 2005
Quality paperback, 424 pagesSize: 235x156 mm
ISBN-13: 9789280811070
ISBN-10: 928081107X
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Simon Chesterman
Simon Chesterman is Global Professor and Director of the New York University School of Law Singapore Programme, and an Associate Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore. His books include You, The People: The United Nations, Transitional Administration, and State-Building (Oxford<BR>University Press, 2004) and Just War or Just Peace? Humanitarian Intervention and International Law (Oxford University Press, 2001). Chia Lehnardt is a doctoral student in Berlin. From 2005-2006 she was responsible for the research project on private military companies at the Institute for<BR>Inter
Michael Ignatieff
Michael Ignatieff, a writer, historian, and broadcaster, is Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University. His books include "Isaiah Berlin: A Life, Blood and Belonging," "The Warrior's Honor," and "The Needs of Strangers." His novel "Scar Tissue" was nominated for the Booker Prize, and his book "The Russian Album, A Family Memoir" won Canada's Governor General's Award and the Heinemann Prize of Britain's Royal Society of Literature.
Ramesh Chandra Thakur
Ramesh Thakur is Head of the Peace Research Center at the School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University.<BR>
Making States Work: State Failure and the Crisis of Governance
This book examines the strategies and tactics of international actors, local political elites, and civil society groups to build or rebuild public institutions before they reach the point of failure— to make the state work.
