TY - BOOK AU - Castillejo, Clare TI - Fragile states: : an urgent challenge for EU foreign policy SN - 1989 - 26 PY - 2015/// PB - Fride KW - PESC KW - Geopolítica KW - Países de la Unión Europea N2 - A growing challenge for the European Union (EU) in years to come will be fragile and conflict-affected states (FCAS). Although definitions of what constitutes a FCAS vary, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD, which leads much of the aid donor community’s analysis on fragility) currently classifies 47 states as fragile – around one quarter of the world’s countries. Moreover, increasingly many of these FCAS states are the EU’s neighbours, whether in the Levant, North Africa or Eastern Europe UR - http://fride.org/descarga/WP126_Fragile_states.pdf ER -