Title: Fragile States
Subtitle: National Interest and the Crisis of Global Governance
Subject Classification:  Politics and Government  
BIC Classification: JP
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Binding: Hardback, eBook
Planned publication date: Sep 2026
ISBN (Hardback): 978-1-83711-811-3
ISBN (eBook): 978-1-83711-812-0

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Description

Fragile States explains why decades of peacekeeping, aid, and state-building have not produced durable gains in the world’s most vulnerable states. International organizations and donors rarely fail for lack of ideas, expertise or money; they fail when member states’ national interests pull mandates, funding, and metrics in divergent directions, weakening implementation capacity, creating selective support that seldom shifts political bargains and rent-seeking mechanisms sustaining fragility ; they fail when competing powers influence transition to peace and development.

The book is case-based throughout. It addresses issues including Sahel security coalitions, EU migration compacts, justice-chain bottlenecks and reconstruction strategies. The work proposes a Minimum Viable Governance (MVG) playbook and bargain-shifting compacts that align what partners will back, with what fragile states actually need. The result is a rigorous, accessible guide for policymakers, practitioners, and graduate students.

Biography

Author(s):  Julien Serre is Assistant Professor at Sciences Po Paris and a former senior official at the United Nations and European development banking and aid agencies. A specialist in fragile states and international development finance, his work examines sovereignty, security, and the crisis of global governance.

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