Managing State Fragility

Taylor & Francis

Managing State FragilityConflict, Quantification and Power\nAuthor(s): Isabel Rocha de Siqueira\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138682283, 978-1138682283\nSynopsis\nThis book examines the management of state fragility and the practices and impacts of quantification over relations of power in international politics. \n\nWith the further movement towards quantification, and as technical and technological changes advance, this book argues that certain important quantifying practices can be understood in terms of symbolic power, which is more nuanced and subtle. The aim is that such an understanding can also open space for considering other instances of power that are blurred and nuanced in current international politics. By looking at how the merging of conflict and development issues in the fragile states agenda has been fed by and has fed the authority of ever-perfectible numbers, the book offers an approach to a.