What defines a state as fragile?

This is the background paper for my pesentation at the opening plenary of the Chatham House conference on Fragile States and the International Community: Intervention, Interference or Indifference?.

Intervention, State-building, State Failure

Date

21 February 2010

Location

Chatham House

What defines a state as ‘fragile’?

Chatham House

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