“Fragile states” in a Contemporary Architecture of the International Development Assistance

The CSDS Director Vladimir Bartenev opened the event and briefly stated main landmarks of the evolution of conceptual views on “Fragile States” in the XXI century. The expert emphasized the multidimensional “matrix” of “fragility” (instability) developed by the OECD.

The CSDS experts continued the workshop panel with their reports on different topics. Nikolay Yudin dwelled on prospects opened by postmodern approaches in the theory of international relations. He showed them in the context of modern research of the “Security-Development” nexus concept as part of the discourse of “fragile states” assistance. Alexey Solomatin exposed theoretical and practical aspects of cooperation between the World Bank and “fragile states”. Olga Kulkova made a presentation about new approaches of the EU to cooperation with “fragile states” and to security and development assistance in the 2010s. Oxana Popova focused on the change of German approaches to the same issue and Altunay Aliyeva made a report about an increasing role of development assistance programmes in the foreign policy of Turkey.