Contents: Part 1: Pathologies and threads of failure (Argentina, Guinea, Haiti, Kenya,Nigeria, Tunisia, Uganda, Venezuela, Zimbabwe), Part 2: Instances of intervention (Afghanistan, DR Congo, Iraq, Syria, Kosovo, Liberia, Libya, Malawi,Sierra Leone, Somalia), Part 3: Illustrations of recovery (Angola, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Rwanda, Chile Zambia, Colombia, Myanmar, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, Vietnam), Part 4: Pulling the threads.