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Making states work

Making states work

by Simon Chesterman, Michael Ignatieff, Ramesh Chandra Thakur

Legitimacy of governmentsSocial contractPolitical stabilityFailed states
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Legitimacy of governmentsSocial contractPolitical stabilityFailed states

About the authors

Simon Chesterman

1973

Australian legal academic

Michael Ignatieff
Michael Ignatieff

1947

Ramesh Chandra Thakur
Ramesh Chandra Thakur

1948

Ramesh Thakur is an Emeritus Professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University, Senior Research Fellow, the Toda Peace Institute, and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of International Affairs. His last post was Director of the Centre for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament at the ANU. He was formerly Senior Vice Rector of the United Nations University (and Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations). Educated in India (BA Honours, University of Calcutta) and Canada (MA, PhD Queen’s University), he has held full-time academic appointments in Fiji, New Zealand, Canada, and Australia and been a consultant to the Australian, New Zealand and No…

Authors

Simon Chesterman, Michael Ignatieff, Ramesh Chandra Thakur

Pages

400

Read time

≈ 10h

Editions

1

Language

English

Publisher

United Nations University Press

ISBN

9789280811070

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