ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on key concepts discussed in the preceding chapter of this book. The book brought together the findings of a three-year collaborative research project funded jointly by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and Department for International Development (DfID). It has explored the various features, dimensions and factors pertaining to the use of state building research in UK policy. It explores the diverse ways policymakers have interacted with different forms of research, which has catalysed emergent dialogue and helped to shape policy or programming positions on a variety of state building issues. Sometimes influence has been achieved in a long-term, indirect and cumulative fashion whereby the concepts, ideas and arguments set out in academic outputs such as books, journal articles and working papers have gradually found their way into policy discourse and framed the parameters of viable state building interventions.
