Fragile states and insecure people? : violence, security, and statehood in the twenty-first century by Louise Andersen

“This important book explores security needs in areas where the formal state has little or no presence and hence where our normative ontology of the sovereign, territorial state does not apply. It doing so, it challenges conventional notions of peace-building, state-building and the assumptions that underpin most of our approaches to development and security. This is an overdue debate that is set to have a profound impact upon security sector reform and post-conflict reconstruction in general.”- Jakkie Cilliers, Executive Director, Institute for Security Studies