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During the 1990s the concept of state failure emerged as part of an attempt to explain and understand the complex, post-Cold War, new world dis-order.
State failure achieved prominence, being applied to situations of institutional collapse and mass violence that appeared to herald a new level of international instability.
Ungoverned territories hosted criminal networks, narco-barons, and terrorists; they would be sources of threats flowing from environmental degradation and disease.
The failed state influenced profoundly international politics in early-21st century.
Exploring critically the emergence, evolution and consequences of the state failure concept, Andrew Taylor concludes that despite a superficial plausibility, it lacks sufficient theoretical and empirical rigour to understand the varying phenomena gathered under the heading of state failure.
This lack of intellectual depth renders it dangerous as a guide to policy.
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- Pages:272 pages, 17 black & white tables, 8 black & white halftones
- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:11/06/2013
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:272 pages, 17 black & white tables, 8 black & white halftones
- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:11/06/2013
- Category:
- ISBN:9781137318039
