International Development Organizations and Fragile States
Law and Disorder
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Beschreibung
This book addresses a conundrum for the international development community: The law of development cooperation poses major constraints on delivering aid where it is needed most. The existence of a state with an effective government is a basic condition for the transfer of aid, making development cooperation with ‘fragile’ nations particularly challenging. The author explores how international organizations like the World Bank have responded by adopting formal and informal rules to engage specifically with countries with weak or no governments. Von Engelhardt provides a critical analysis of the discourse on fragile states and how it has shaped the policy decision-making of international organizations. By demonstrating how perceptions of fragility can have significant consequences both in practice and in law, the work challenges conventional research that dismisses state fragility as a phenomenon beyond law. It is posited that the legal parameters for effective global policy play a crucial role, and a fresh approach to a topic that is central to international security and development.
This book addresses a conundrum for the international development community: The law of development cooperation poses major constraints on delivering aid where it is needed most. The existence of a state with an effective government is a basic condition for the transfer of aid, making development cooperation with ‘fragile’ nations particularly challenging. The author explores how international organizations like the World Bank have responded by adopting formal and informal rules to engage specifically with countries with weak or no governments. Von Engelhardt provides a critical analysis of the discourse on fragile states and how it has shaped the policy decision-making of international organizations. By demonstrating how perceptions of fragility can have significant consequences both in practice and in law, the work challenges conventional research that dismisses state fragility as a phenomenon beyond law. It also argues that the legal parameters for effective global policy play acrucial role, and offers a fresh approach to a topic that is central to international security and development.
Takes a novel approach to demonstrate the political and legal significance of the 'fragile states' idea Shifts the focus away from the controversial debate on what 'fragile states' are to the question of how they are perceived and responded to, including in legal terms Adds to the existing legal scholarship by extending the scope of analysis from rare incidents of complete state collapse to the broader spectrum of limited statehood
Autor*in
Marie von Engelhardt
Themen in »International Development Organizations and Fragile States«
State building Development Cooperation The State-Centric Development Paradigm Program-for-Results Financing Asian Development Bank African Development Bank Juridical Statehood Empirical Statehood Aid transfer Fragile states World Bank International organizations International security International law Policy decision-making