Zaryab Iqbal, Harvey Starr

State Failure in the Modern World

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Produktbeschreibung

Zaryab Iqbal is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of War and the Health of Nations (Stanford, 2010).Harvey Starr is Dag Hammarskj¿ld Professor of International Affairs in the Department of Political Science at the University of South Carolina.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780804776738
• ISBN-10: 0804776733
• Artikelnr.: 42800820

Autorenporträt

Zaryab Iqbal is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of War and the Health of Nations (Stanford, 2010). Harvey Starr is Dag Hammarskjöld Professor of International Affairs in the Department of Political Science at the University of South Carolina.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents and Abstracts
1Introduction
chapter abstract
The first chapter introduces the book and provides an overview of its
contents. In particular, it outlines the book's general argument: that
state failure is associated with a range of factors pertaining to domestic
politics as well as international influences, and that it is a phenomenon
that is tremendously important to global security in the current
international system. This chapter situates the book amid the burgeoning
literature on the importance of domestic political and social phenomena for
international relations and foreign policy.
2State Failure: Conceptualization and Definition
chapter abstract
This chapter addresses definitional and conceptual issues in the study of
state failure, and clarifies the concept for the purposes of the analyses
in the book. There is confusion over the exact meaning and nature of state
failure in much of the extant literature, due to weaknesses in
conceptualization and measurement. The lack of definitional clarity, in
turn, has lead to problems in research design, and consequently in the
meaning of the findings generated by that research. This chapter reviews
various measures of state failure used in academic and policy literatures,
outlines the problems of conceptualization and measurement in the study of
state collapse, and introduces a definition and measure that solves these
problems. The working definition of state failure used in this book focuses
on the complete collapse of state authority, which helps distinguish
collapsed states from states that are unstable, weak, or fragile.
3Why do States Collapse?: Determinants of State Failure
chapter abstract
Chapter three sets forth the book's theoretical framework regarding the
causes of state failure, and empirically analyzes the social, political,
and institutional correlates of state collapse since 1946. State failure is
determined by key social and political factors both at the domestic and
international level. Specifically, this analysis focuses on the influence
of the type of governing institutions, states' involvement in civil and
international armed conflict, various levels of domestic political turmoil,
and economic development on the likelihood of state failure. The findings
reveal that the risk of state failure is closely associated with armed
conflict, domestic strife, and national income.
4The Duration of State Failure
chapter abstract
This chapter assesses the determinants of the length of time for which
states remain failed after experiencing a collapse of their central
government. While a majority of failed states during the time period under
study recovered from collapse within a year, some remained in a state of
failure for five or six years, and a few were unable to reinstate governing
institutions for up to fifteen years. In addition to the correlates
included in the model of the determinants of state failure in Chapter
Three, this analysis also examines the effect of the nature of pre-failure
governing institutions in evaluating the duration of state failure.
5Recurrent Collapse and its Causes
chapter abstract
Chapter Five examines the question of why some states that fail achieve a
lasting recovery, while others experience a recurrence of failure, and
focuses on four specific cases of recurrent state failure: Afghanistan, the
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, and the Ivory Coast. A series
of four comparative case studies is conducted, comparing each of these four
states to similar states that experience only a single failure during the
same time period. This comparison adopts a similar-systems approach,
comparing states that are most similar to each other on a number of
relevant dimensions. The motivation behind this choice of research design
is that if similar states were able to avoid recurrent collapse, why did
these four states fall prey to a second collapse? The use of comparative
case analyses in this chapter complements the systematic quantitative
analyses of earlier chapters.
6The Consequences of State Failure
chapter abstract
This chapter assesses the negative effects of state collapse, with
particular attention to the spatial diffusion of those consequences. The
instability, unrest, and civil war that increase the hazard of state
collapse are not limited to the failed/collapsed state; states neighboring
- or located within close distance of - a failed state are also likely to
experience subsequently higher levels of political instability, unrest,
civil war and interstate war. This analysis also evaluates the likelihood
of state failure itself diffusing to other states. The findings indicate
that the more "minor" possible consequences of state failure - political
unrest and instability - spread to a lesser degree than more intense forms
of violence - civil and interstate war. At the same time, state failure
itself does not seem to be regionally contagious.
7State Failure: Prevention and Management
chapter abstract
This penultimate chapter discusses the policy implications of the book's
analyses, both in terms of preventing state failure and as they relate to
the management and recovery of collapsed states. The findings of these
analyses are used to survey the set of policy recommendations extant in the
scholarly and policy literatures, and to propose the most promising avenues
of policy choice and implementation -especially in mitigating diffusion
effects and in directing attention to those states with the greatest hazard
of collapse.
8Conclusion
chapter abstract
This concluding chapter revisits the importance of studying state failure
and the place of this subject in international politics and security
studies. We also identify key directions for future research on state
failure. It offers some final words on the significance of appropriate
definition and measurement in the study of state failure, the key role of
intervention in preventing and managing state collapse, and importance of
the forces of globalization in understanding state failure.