Governmentalizing Sovereignty: Indexes of State Fragility and the Calculability of Political Order

Governance by Indicators: Global Power through Quantification and Rankings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Bhuta, Nehal ^a  

^a EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Agreement; Failed states; Social realities; State fragility index; Trading language; US agency for international development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920380406     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199658244.003.0006     Document Type: Chapter

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