CONTENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Introduction 1
PART 1: PATHOLOGIES AND THREADS OF FAILURE
1. Argentina:
Living Beyond Means
2. Guinea:
A Great Balancing Act
3. Haiti:
128 Shades of Grey
4. Kenya:
Off the Rails or Back on Track?
5. Nigeria:
A Cauldron of Superlatives
6. Tunisia:
And Other Springs
7. Venezuela:
An Authoritarian Democratic Playbook
9. Zimbabwe:
Backwards to Beit
Bridge?
PART 2: INSTANCES OF INTERVENTION
10. Afghanistan:
Cycles of War and Aid
11. The Democratic Republic
of Congo: The Invisible State
12. Iraq
to Syria:
Matching Legitimacy, Strategy and Resources
13. Kosovo: Fifteen Years of Building Peace
14. Liberia:
Mission with a
Long Tail?
15. Libya
After Regime Change: A Michael
Jackson State?
16. Malawi:
A Different Sort of Leadership
17. Sierra
Leone: Shrugging off Legacy
18. Somalia:
The World’s ‘Most Failed’ State
PART 3: ILLUSTRATIONS OF RECOVERY
19. Angola:
Giving War a Chance
20. Burkina
Faso: The Mobylette African Capital
21. Burundi
and Rwanda:
Getting Beyond Tribalism
22. Chile
to Zambia:
Natural Resources – During and After the Rush
23. Colombia:
Attention to Detail
24. Myanmar:
the Roots of Reform
25. Singapore:
Choices Behind Change
26. Somaliland: The Power of
Local Ownership
27. South
Africa; Components for Resolving Conflict
28. Vietnam:
No Lack of Excuses
PART 4: PULLING THE THREADS
29. The Prior Question: Why Some States Fail
30. The Fragility ‘Industry’: Getting Past Routine Responses
31. Confronting Authoritarian Democracy, Managing Identity Politics
32. The Quiet Professionals: Aid, Advice and the Art of
Recovery
33. The Private Sector: Melting the Iceberg and the Zen
Master
Conclusion: Buy, Hold, Fix
Notes
INDEX