There is a need for further refinement of the complex relationship between diaspora
communities, their transnational social networks and fragile states. Research clearly shows …

This article uses the Country Indicators for Foreign Policy (CIFP) fragile states framework to
evaluate fragile state transitions. Our objective is to find out why some states considered …

Introduction More than a century ago, Durkheim (1893, p. 64), to whom we owe the concept
of social cohesion or social solidarity, stated that it is “completely a moral phenomenon …