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Fragility, Aid, and State-building unacceptable The author incorporates those advancesFragile states pose major development and security challenges. Considerable international resources are therefore devoted to state building and institutional strengthening in fragile states, with generally mixed results. This volume explores how unpacking the concept of fragility and studying its dimensions and forms can help to build policy relevant understandings of how states become more resilient and the role of aid therein. It highlights the