'Fragile States' : introducing a political concept

Grimm, Sonja; Lemay-Hébert, Nicolas; Nay, Olivier

'Fragile States' : introducing a political concept

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2014

Authors

Grimm, Sonja

Lemay-Hébert, Nicolas

Nay, Olivier

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Third World Quarterly ; 35 (2014), 2. - pp. 197-209. - ISSN 0143-6597. - eISSN 1360-2241

Abstract

The special issue 'Fragile States: A Political Concept’ investigates the emergence, dissemination and 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. The contributors to the issue investigate the instrumental use of the ‘state fragility’ label in the legitimisation of Western policy interventions in countries facing violence and profound poverty. They also emphasise the agency of actors‘ on the receiving end’, describing how the elites and governments in so-called ‘fragile states’ have incorporated and reinterpreted the concept to fit their own political agendas. A first set of articles examines the role played by the World Bank, the OECD, the European Union and the g7+ coalition of ‘fragile states’ in the transnational diffusion of the concept, which is understood as a critical element in the new discourse on international aid and security. A second set of papers employs three case studies (Sudan, Indonesia and Uganda) to explore the processes of appropriation, reinterpretation and the strategic use of the ‘fragile state’ concept.

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320 Politics

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GRIMM, Sonja, Nicolas LEMAY-HÉBERT, Olivier NAY, 2014. 'Fragile States' : introducing a political concept. In: Third World Quarterly. 35(2), pp. 197-209. ISSN 0143-6597. eISSN 1360-2241. Available under: doi: 10.1080/01436597.2013.878127

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