This volume examines and evaluates the impact of international statebuilding interventions on the political economy of conflict-affected countries over the past

This open access book modifies and revitalizes the concept of the ‘developmental state’ to understand the politics of emerging economy through nuanced analy

This book examines the ways in which long-term processes of state-formation limit the possibilities for short-term political projects of statebuilding. Using pr

Why does state building sometimes promote economic growth and in other cases impede it? Through an analysis of political and economic development in four countr

Building effective state institutions before introducing democracy is widely presumed to improve different development outcomes. Conversely, proponents of this