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US soldiers and bulldozers clear and improve Route Agha in Afghanistan (Arctic Wolves/Flickr/CC BY 2.0)

25 September 2018

Do ‘good practice’ PFM systems lead to better outcomes in fragile states?

by Tobias Haque

Royal marines board a helicopter (Think Defence/Flickr/CC BY-NC 2.0)

3 September 2018

Aid and state-building

by Nematullah Bizhan

Screenshot from a video advertising the report

18 June 2018

Cameron and Collier on fragile states: anything new?

by Saku Akmeemana and Tobias Haque

A boy confronts the Egyptian military police, just south of Tahrir Square, Cairo, in 2011 during the Arab Spring (Alisdare Hickson/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0)

25 May 2018

Are economists’ standard solutions part of the problem in fragile states?

by Tobias Haque

10 April 2018

DP68 A ‘good governance’ paradox? Re-examining reform of economic institutions in post-conflict contexts

by Tobias Haque

(image: Tobias Haque)

28 August 2017

State-building and the politics of scale in Solomon Islands

by Tobias Haque

RAMSI military welcomed on arrival, 2003 (Gary Ramage/Australian Defence/DFAT/Flickr CC BY 2.0)

16 June 2017

RAMSI chapter ends in Australia’s Pacific story

by James Batley

An artist prepares a patriotic mural by the road between Asmara and Keren, Eritrea (David Stanley/Flickr CC BY 2.0)

31 May 2017

A new paradigm for understanding Africa’s crisis

by Andebrhan Welde Giorgis

Libya Celebrates "Tripolitanian Republic" Declared against Colonial Rule (Flickr/UN Photo/Iason Foounten CC BY NC ND 2.0)

24 May 2017

Africa’s democratic failure

by Andebrhan Welde Giorgis

Fragile States Index 2016 (http://fsi.fundforpeace.org/rankings-2016)

19 April 2017

Why does state fragility matter, and what can we do about it?

by Nematullah Bizhan

Bypass road sign (Wikimedia Commons, public domain)

1 November 2016

Why donors bypass recipient states, and why they shouldn’t

by Nematullah Bizhan

4 May 2015

New Deal principles in divided societies: what can we learn from the case of Myanmar? (Part 2)

by Mathilde Tréguier

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