Further Reading

I recommend the following books for anyone interested in learning more about fragile states:

Making States Work: State Failure And The Crisis Of Governance
Edited by Simon Chesterman, Michael Ignatieff, and Ramesh Thakur

Arab Politics: The Search for Legitimacy
by Michael C. Hudson

African Economies and the Politics of Permanent Crisis, 1979-1999
by Nicolas van de Walle

Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance
by Douglass C. North

Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy
by Robert D. Putnam

Growing Apart: Oil, Politics, and Economic Change in Indonesia and Nigeria
by Peter Lewis

See the footnotes in the book for a more extensive list.

These organizations are worth exploring:

http://www.cgdev.org

http://www.odi.org.uk

http://www.ids.ac.uk

http://www.crise.ox.ac.uk

http://www.crisisgroup.org

If you would like to know more about fragile states, do not hesitate to contact me.