Troubled regions and failing states : the clustering and contagion of armed conflicts /
Is the phenomenon of state failure better understood through a focus on the regional context? To what extent may studies of regional security benefit from a focus on the capacities and vulnerabilities of the states involved? These are the questions addressed in this volume of Comparative Social Rese...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bingley, UK :
Emerald,
2010.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Comparative social research ;
v. 27. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | Is the phenomenon of state failure better understood through a focus on the regional context? To what extent may studies of regional security benefit from a focus on the capacities and vulnerabilities of the states involved? These are the questions addressed in this volume of Comparative Social Research. Substantially, this special issue operates at the intersection of the larger debates on state failure and on regional (in- ) security, relating to various perspectives within each of these. State failure, manifesting itself in the inability of a state to maintain its monopoly of violence, has become a widespread phenomenon in several regions of the world. While the weakness of the institutions of the state in question is an obvious dimension of state failure, there is also an important international dimension. In many of these cases, conflicts are interwoven and violence spills across borders. |
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| Item Description: | EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 380 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780857241023 0857241028 |
| ISSN: | 0195-6310 ; |
