After dissecting the reasons why some states prosper and others sink into poverty and violence, Fixing Fragile States visits seven deeply dysfunctional places—including Pakistan, Bolivia, West Africa, and Syria—and explains how even the most desperate of them can be transformed.
Seth D. Kaplan is a business consultant who has run multinational firms and founded successful local corporations in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. His articles on fragile states and development have appeared in the Washington Quarterly, Orbis, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times.