Book Review (Part One)

Fixing Failed States (Let’s see how he fixes a failed state like Afghanistan)[1]

A Framework for Rebuilding a Fractured World

In the dawn of 2015, I finished reading a prominent book under FIXING FAILED STATES penned by Ashraf Ghani and Clare Lockhart; the first one, current president of Afghanistan and the then employee of the World Bank and lecturer at John Hopkins University, Kabul University and Finance Minister of the country in the year following 9/11. The Latter, an employee of World Bank and the Director of Institute for State Effectiveness, one of the writers of Bonn Agreement and one of the developers of National Solidarity Programs in Afghanistan. Both of them have rich background in international scene practically and theoretically.

This book is not just as its name indicates, but it is both accounts of successes and failures of states. It illustrates the rising story of some states which were deemed to failure in the eyes of the others while on contrary, some states which were taught to be the stars of a given regions descended in chaos and anarchy due to dysfunctional apparatus called state.