{"id":881,"date":"2015-12-08T22:33:14","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T03:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/?p=881"},"modified":"2025-08-13T10:28:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T14:28:51","slug":"towards-a-theory-of-fragile-state-transitions-evidence-from-yemen-bangladesh-and-laos-third-world-quarterly-volume-36-issue-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/2015\/towards-a-theory-of-fragile-state-transitions-evidence-from-yemen-bangladesh-and-laos-third-world-quarterly-volume-36-issue-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Towards a theory of fragile state transitions evidence from Yemen, Bangladesh and Laos &#8211; Third World Quarterly &#8211; Volume 36, Issue 7"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Towards a theory of fragile state transitions evidence from Yemen, Bangladesh and Laos &#8211; Third World Quarterly &#8211; Volume 36, Issue 7\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>This article uses the Country Indicators for Foreign Policy (CIFP) fragile states framework to evaluate fragile state transitions. Our objective is to find out why some states considered fragile have recovered, while others remain fragile for long periods. We identify three categories of countries: those in a fragility trap, those that have exited it, and those that fluctuate between fragility and stability. CIFP data are used to examine state transitions for each category. One state from each category is then subjected to further country-level analysis. Our findings reinforce the view that state transitions do not follow a unique path and that effective engagement in fragile states requires different approaches across cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/Towards-a-theory-of-fragile-state-transitions-evidence-from-Yemen-Bangladesh-and-Laos-Third-World-Quarterly-Volume-36-Issue-7-December-8-2015.pdf\">Towards a theory of fragile state transitions evidence from Yemen, Bangladesh and Laos &#8211; Third World Quarterly &#8211; Volume 36, Issue 7<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article uses the Country Indicators for Foreign Policy (CIFP) fragile states framework to evaluate fragile state transitions. Our objective is to find out why some states considered fragile have recovered, while others remain fragile for long periods. We identify three categories of countries: those in a fragility trap, those that have exited it, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-reports"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":883,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions\/883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}