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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Harpviken, Kristian Berg
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bingley, UK : Emerald, 2010.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Comparative social research ; v. 27.
Temas:
Failed states.
Failed states > Regional disparities.
National security.
Political violence.
Political stability.
Regionalism.
Political science.
États défaillants.
États défaillants > Disparités régionales.
Violence politique.
Stabilité politique.
Régionalisme.
terrorism.
Social research & statistics.
Sociology.
Social Science > Research.
Social Science > Sociology > General.
Social Science > General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Troubled regions and failing states: introduction / Kristian Berg Harpviken
  • The theory of failure and the failure of theory: 'state failure', the idea of the state and the practice of state building / Stein Sundstøl Eriksen
  • Strong chieftaincies out of weak states, or elemental power unbound / Georgi Derluguian and Timothy Earle
  • Corruption and conflict: contrasting logics of collective action / Jens Christopher Andvig
  • Colliding state-building projects and regional insecurity in post-Soviet space: Georgia versus Russia in South Ossetia / S. Neil MacFarlane
  • Transforming West African militia networks for postwar recovery / William Reno
  • Regional security: demarcating theoretical and empirical borders / Rodrigo Tavares
  • Strong states in a troubled region: anatomies of a Middle Eastern regional conflict formation / Reinoud Leenders
  • State strength on the Ethiopian border: cross-border conflicts in the Horn of Africa / J. Andrew Grant
  • Natural resources, international regimes and state-building: diamonds in West Africa / J. Andrew Grant
  • Re-examining the 'colour revolutions': the turn of the tide from Belgrade to Ulan Bator / Pavel K. Baev
  • Caught in the middle? Regional perspectives on Afghanistan / Kristian Berg Harpviken
  • Power, security and regional conflict management in Southern Africa and South Asia / Laurie Nathan
  • State responses to transnational challenges: the evolution of regional security organisations in Africa / Karin Dokken
  • Webs of war: managing regional conflict formations in West Africa and Central Africa / Ståle Ulriksen.

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