Making states work : state failure and the crisis of governance / edited by Simon Chesterman, Michael Ignatieff, and Ramesh Thakur.

"A Project of the International Peace Academy and the United Nations University."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

partI. Issues -- 1. Policy responses to state failure / Sebastian von Einsiedel -- 2. The legacy of colonialism / James Mayall -- 3. Human rights, power and the state / Michael Ignatieff -- partII. Regions -- 4. The Great Lakes and South Central Asia / Andrea Armstrong, Barnett R. Rubin -- 5. Columbia and the Andean crisis / Monica Serrano, Paul Kenny -- 6. The South Pacific / -- partIII. Margins -- 7. Reviving state legitimacy in Pakistan / Samina Ahmed -- 8. Disintegration and reconstitution in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea / Hazel Smith -- 9. Afghanistan's weak state and strong society / Amin Saikal --

partIV. Successes -- 10. Success in Mozambique? / Michel Cahen -- 11. State-building, national leadership and "relative success" in Costa Rica / Abelardo Morales-Gamboa, Stephen Baranyi -- 12. From vulnerability to success: the British withdrawal from Singapore / Patricia Shu Ming Tan, Simon S.C. Tay -- pt.V. Choices -- 13. Early and "early late" prevention / I. William Zartman -- 14. Making humanitarianism work / Thomas G. Weiss, Peter J. Hoffman -- 15. Transitional justice / Alex Boraine -- 16. Transitional administration, state-building and the United Nations / Simon Chesterman -- 17. Conclusion: the future of state-building / Simon Chesterman, Michael Ignatieff, Ramesh Thakur.