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Achieving Turnaround in Fragile States by Andrew Rosser Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex Brighton BN1 9RE United Kingdom Email: A.Rosser@ids.ac.uk November 2005 Draft Only Not for Citation 1. Introduction Over the past few years, the development challenges faced by fragile states have moved to the top of the international development agenda. Partly, this has reflected an apparent increase in the number of fragile states in the world over the past two decades. Since the end of the Cold War, some powerful states have b