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What has been going wrong in the Democratic Republic of the Congo? Why has the most expensive UN peacekeeping mission in history been unable to end violence after fifteen years of continuous deployment? Why does the country reappear every year, without fail, among the world's largest appeals for emergency aid?

Follies in Fragile States explores how we got to this point. It is the first inside account of the 'stabilisation' effort in eastern Congo from 2007 onwards,...