Fragile States

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FRIDE has undertaken a two-year programme of research aiming to explore what drives and perpetuates state fragility. Bringing together a series of academic seminars, broader theoretical studies and field research in four fragile states - Angola, Guatemala, Haiti and Kosovo - the work focuses on the ground-level realities in these countries.

This project was run with the support of the Ford Foundation.

Related publications

• Vulnerability and causes of fragility in Haiti
• The Kosovo Statebuilding Conundrum: Addressing Fragility in a Contested State
• Repairing the weakest links: a new agenda for fragile states
• The state and security in Guatemala
• The Afghanistan Crisis: Regional and international dimensions
• Can fragile states copy the Asian miracle?
• Angola, "failed" yet "successful"
• The proliferation of the "parallel state"
• State weakness
• Afghanistan, the limits of counter-insurgency
• Under pressure: states in the global era