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cice-11472	Williams, Hakim Mohandas Amani	Fragile States, by Lohar Brock, Hans-Henrick Holm, Georg Sørensen and Michael Stohl	2012	3	.pdf	application/pdf	1729	56	30	Because violence is often such a staple of fragile states, Brock et al. expend considerable effort in deconstructing the connection between violence and state fragility: they “do not argue that there is a deterministic, law-like relationship between state fragility and violence” (p. 48); but acknowledge that “state fragility...is both a cause and a consequence of violence” (p. 47). Nonetheless, this book represents a strong contribution toward widening our understanding of fragile states; and despite the far-ranging analysis of both endogenous and exogenous factors that shape state fragility, the authors are perhaps quite right when they insist that “fundamental social change must come from [within and] not from outsiders” (p. 136). – Reviewed by Hakim Mohandas Amani Williams, Gettysburg College Citizenship Education in Commonwealth Countries, by Tristan McCowan and Sonia Gomez.	cache/cice-11472.pdf	txt/cice-11472.txt