Why states recover : changing walking societies into winning nations -- from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe /

State failure takes many forms. Somalia offers one extreme. A collapse of central authority as the outcome of a prolonged civil war, where authority descends into competing factions -- headed by warlords -- around the spoils of local commerce, power and international aid. At the other end of the sca...

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Main Author:	Mills, Greg, 1962- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London : Hurst & Company, 2014.
Subjects:	Economic history. Economic development. Nation-building. Social history. Political science. Asia > Economic conditions. Asia > Politics and government. Africa > Economic conditions. Africa > Politics and government. Africa. Asia.