Books by Clare Lockhart
Clare Lockhart is director of the Institute for State Effectiveness, founded in 2005 to provide ‘strategic, practical and operational solutions to state failure worldwide’. She has worked for the World Bank and the UN. Trained as a barrister, she helped write the Bonn Agreement that formed the Afghan government. During her years in Kabul, she played a key leadership role in developing the National Programs approach to Afghanistan’s reconstruction efforts.
Fixing Failed States
by Ashraf Ghani, Clare Lockhart & Clare Lockhart
Fixing Failed States addresses one of the central issues of our times: the proliferation of failed states across the world and our inability to stabilize them. There are between forty and sixty failed states, and they house one billion people. The world's worst problems - terrorism, drug and human trafficking, absolute poverty, ethnic conflict, disease, genocide - originate in such states, and the international community has devoted billions upon billions of dollars to solving the problem. Yet by and large, the effort has failed. The authors explain the failure stems in part from an outmoded vision of the state system based on the framers of the post-World War II order's vision: relatively independent, unified states that control markets and rely on authoritarianism when necessary. The world we actually live in is far different. Identities and loyalties don't necessarily correspond to traditional nation-states, and nations are far less autonomous than in the past. The task at hand, they argue, is to develop novel strategies informed by the realities of our fully globalized world. International institutions, therefore, should prioritize fostering mutually reinforcing bonds between states, civil societies, and markets
Interviews with Clare Lockhart
The best books on Failed States, recommended by Clare Lockhart
The director of The Institute for State Effectiveness, Clare Lockhart, questions the role of the state and discusses the effects of failed states on both neighbouring and local populations. She picks the best books on failed states.
