Publication

Sep 2016

This paper proposes a "Four S Framework" that the incoming 2017 US administration could use to deliver a more disciplined, realistic and ultimately sound foreign policy approach to state fragility. The framework, which stresses a strategic, systematic, selective, and sustained approach to the fragility problem, has been successfully applied in Colombia and Myanmar and could serve the next US administration well.

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Author William J Burns, Michèle A Flournoy, Nancy E Lindborg
Series USIP Special Reports
Publisher United States Institute of Peace (USIP)
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Center for a New American Security
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