TY  - BOOK
AU  - Woodward,Susan L.
TI  - The ideology of failed states: why intervention fails 
SN  - 9781107176423
AV  - JC328.7 .W66 2017
U1  - 327.1 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Cambridge, United Kingdom, New York, NY
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Failed states
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-300) and index; Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. What's in a name?; 3. History of a concept; 4. State-building as solution; 5. Building an international apparatus for state-building; 6. The real problem of failed states; 7. Consequences; 8. Neither security nor development
N2  - "This book presents the origins of the term, how it shaped the conceptual framework for international development and security in the post-Cold War era, and why. The book also questions how specific international interventions on both aid and security fronts - greatly varied by actor - based on these outsiders' perceptions of state failure create conditions that fit their characterizations of failed states"--
ER  -