TY - CHAP
T1 - Failed States in Theoretical, Historical, and Policy Perspectives
AU - Gros, Jean-Germain
N1 - Get this from a library! Failed States in Theoretical, Historical, and Policy Perspectives. [Jean-Germain Gros] -- Failed states have been a central preoccupation of scholars and international policy makers in the post-Cold War period. In addition to the violence wrought by loss of control in these states, they ...
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Failed states have been a central preoccupation of scholars and international policy makers in the post-Cold War period. In addition to the violence wrought by loss of control in these states, they are charged with creating refugee flows, impeding economic development, facilitating narcotics trafficking, and providing safe haven for terrorists—leading to calls for them to be fixed by the international community. This chapter argues to the contrary that, first, failed states are not monolithic; second, violence and state failure are not synonymous; and third, the international community contributes to state failure as much as it may facilitate state rebuilding.
AB - Failed states have been a central preoccupation of scholars and international policy makers in the post-Cold War period. In addition to the violence wrought by loss of control in these states, they are charged with creating refugee flows, impeding economic development, facilitating narcotics trafficking, and providing safe haven for terrorists—leading to calls for them to be fixed by the international community. This chapter argues to the contrary that, first, failed states are not monolithic; second, violence and state failure are not synonymous; and third, the international community contributes to state failure as much as it may facilitate state rebuilding.
UR - http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5660854832
M3 - Chapter
BT - Control of Violence : Historical and International Perspectives on Violence in Modern Societies
ER -