INST 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Peacebuilding, Economic Sanctions, Failed State
8 May 2019
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All countries have a collective interest but no one country has enough individual interest to give aid on their own. Africa is the contemporary location of most civil wars, failed states, refugee crisis, and as a result, struggling economies. State can no longer meaningfully govern or produce policy. In vast parts of africa, state failure is less of an objective condition than a permanent mode of political operation. Terms such as rebuilding or resuscitating and reestablishing are misleading insofar as they imply the prior existence of effective public institutions waiting to reemerge. Englebert and tull, flawed ideas about failed states. Three flawed ideas underpin reconstruction efforts in africa. Assumption that western state institutions can be successfully transferred to africa. The extent to which the reconstruction in africa imply logic of cooperation between donors and african leaders. State failure as opportunity for new social contract vs state failure as opportunity for windfall.
