New PDF release: Managing State Fragility: Conflict, Quantification and Power

By Isabel Rocha de Siqueira

This publication examines the administration of ‘state fragility’ and the practices and affects of quantification over kin of energy in foreign politics.


With the additional circulation in the direction of quantification, and as technical and technological adjustments improve, this ebook argues that convinced vital quantifying practices will be understood by way of symbolic energy, that's extra nuanced and refined. the purpose is that such an figuring out may also open area for contemplating different cases of energy which are blurred and nuanced in present foreign politics. by means of how the merging of clash and improvement concerns within the fragile states time table has been fed through and has fed the authority of ever-perfectible numbers, the ebook deals an method of deal with the trouble in facing profound inequality with no presuming domination. as a substitute, the instance of the g7+ crew of self-labelled ‘fragile states’ and its instruments point out that quantification has reached some extent of no go back, however it has performed so via oblique practices of administration and with the complicity, in an effort to say, of these deemed least favoured by way of it. This indicates that there's little likelihood that policy-makers and lecturers can break out facing numbers and there's a lot to be received by means of figuring out how advanced and knowingly imperfect records turn into authoritative and widespread.


This publication can be of a lot curiosity to scholars of serious safety stories, overseas Political Sociology, improvement reviews, and IR regularly.

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