The primacy of domestic politics and the reproduction of poverty and insecurity.
The dominant international discourse about 'fragile states' calls for external actors to build the capacity of domestic institutions as a means of overcoming poverty and insecurity in the global South. It frames the pathway to greater peace and prosperity as primarily, if not entirely, domestically...
| Publicado en: | Australian Journal of International Affairs Vol. 74; no. 2; pp. 147 - 165 |
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Apr2020
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