Journal Special Issue
Aid to Support Fragile States

The Challenge of Chronic Weakness

This special issue has its origins in work conducted under the Governance and Fragility theme of UNU-WIDER’s ReCom - Research and Communication on Foreign Aid programme (2011–13), and particularly the work on ‘Aid and Institution-building in Fragile States: Findings from Comparative Cases’. This set of studies in turn highlighted the value of additional work on the varieties of fragility, including ‘chronic’ versus ‘temporary’ fragility, and its implications for aid policy making – the focus of this special issue. Other case studies prepared under this project were published in a 2014 volume of the same name in the ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.

Table of contents
  1. Varieties of fragility: Implications for aid
    Rachel M. Gisselquist
    Journal Special Issue | Aid to Support Fragile States
    Book Chapter | Introduction
  2. Disaggregating state fragility: A method to establish a multidimensional empirical typology
    Jörn Grävingholt, Sebastian Ziaja, Merle Kreibaum
    Journal Special Issue | Aid to Support Fragile States
    Book Chapter | Disaggregating state fragility
  3. Conceptualising state collapse: An institutionalist approach
    Daniel Lambach, Eva Johais, Markus Bayer
    Journal Special Issue | Aid to Support Fragile States
    Book Chapter | Conceptualising state collapse
  4. Towards a theory of fragile state transitions: Evidence from Yemen, Bangladesh and Laos
    David Carment, Joe Landry, Yiagadeesen Samy
    Journal Special Issue | Aid to Support Fragile States
    Book Chapter | Towards a theory of fragile state transitions
  5. Aid and state transition in Ghana and South Korea
    Jiyoung Kim
    Journal Special Issue | Aid to Support Fragile States
    Working Paper | Aid and State Transition in Ghana and South Korea
    Book Chapter | Aid and state transition in Ghana and South Korea
  6. Aid and policy preferences in oil-rich countries: comparing Indonesia and Nigeria
    Ahmad Helmy Fuady
    Journal Special Issue | Aid to Support Fragile States
    Working Paper | Aid and Policy Preference in Oil-Rich Countries
    Book Chapter | Aid and policy preferences in oil-rich countries
  7. Development assistance and the lasting legacies of rebellion in Burundi and Rwanda
    Devon E. A. Curtis
    Working Paper | Local Agency, Development Assistance and the Legacies of Rebellion in Burundi and Rwanda
    Journal Special Issue | Aid to Support Fragile States
    Book Chapter | Development assistance and the lasting legacies of rebellion in Burundi and Rwanda
  8. Aid, accountability and institution building in Ethiopia: The self-limiting nature of technocratic aid
    Berhanu Abegaz
    Journal Special Issue | Aid to Support Fragile States
    Working Paper | Aid, Accountability, and Institution-Building in Ethiopia
    Book Chapter | Aid, accountability and institution building in Ethiopia
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published as 36(7)2015  

15.03.2014: TWQ accept proposal

10.03.2014: journal editor informs proposal being ‘actively considered’; suggests inclusion of other studies (non-UNU-WIDER) to make up standard 10-article issue if spe