CONTENTS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Introduction 1

PART 1: PATHOLOGIES AND THREADS OF FAILURE

1. Argentina: Living Beyond Means

2. Guinea: A Great Balancing Act

3. Haiti: 128 Shades of Grey

4. Kenya: Off the Rails or Back on Track?

5. Nigeria: A Cauldron of Superlatives

6. Tunisia: And Other Springs

7. Venezuela: An Authoritarian Democratic Playbook

9. Zimbabwe: Backwards to Beit Bridge?

PART 2: INSTANCES OF INTERVENTION

10. Afghanistan: Cycles of War and Aid

11. The Democratic Republic of Congo: The Invisible State

12. Iraq to Syria: Matching Legitimacy, Strategy and Resources

13. Kosovo: Fifteen Years of Building Peace

14. Liberia: Mission with a Long Tail?

15. Libya After Regime Change: A Michael Jackson State?

16. Malawi: A Different Sort of Leadership

17. Sierra Leone: Shrugging off Legacy

18. Somalia: The World’s ‘Most Failed’ State

PART 3: ILLUSTRATIONS OF RECOVERY

19. Angola: Giving War a Chance

20. Burkina Faso: The Mobylette African Capital

21. Burundi and Rwanda: Getting Beyond Tribalism

22. Chile to Zambia: Natural Resources – During and After the Rush

23. Colombia: Attention to Detail

24. Myanmar: the Roots of Reform

25. Singapore: Choices Behind Change

26. Somaliland: The Power of Local Ownership

27. South Africa; Components for Resolving Conflict

28. Vietnam: No Lack of Excuses

PART 4: PULLING THE THREADS

29. The Prior Question: Why Some States Fail

30. The Fragility ‘Industry’: Getting Past Routine Responses

31. Confronting Authoritarian  Democracy, Managing Identity Politics

32. The Quiet Professionals: Aid, Advice and the Art of Recovery

33. The Private Sector: Melting the Iceberg and the Zen Master

Conclusion: Buy, Hold, Fix

Notes

INDEX