LSE (2011) Cities in Fragile States.

The‘Cities and Fragile States’ is a research programme of the Crisis States Research Centre of The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Over the past two decades, many cities around the world have become characterised by rising forms of violence, insecurity and illegality. LSE research sought to demonstrate how cities in fragile states - as social, economic, political and spatial entities - can promote or prevent the unravelling of the state.