The Idea of Failed States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Idea of Failed States write by H. Christian Breede. This book was released on 2017-08-04. The Idea of Failed States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why are some states able to deliver public services to their citizens while others cannot? Why are some states beset by internal conflict that leaves many impoverished? Much of what has become known as the failed states literature attempts to engage with these questions, but does so in way that betrays a particular bias, engaging in advocacy for intervention rather than analysis. The Idea of Failed States directly challenges existing thinking about conventional state strength as it finds that institutional approaches to state strength obscure as much as they reveal. The question of why some states are strong and others weak has traditionally been addressed using measures of economic growth, resources, and quality of life. This book compares the dimensions of state strength characterised by community, society, and nation and uses social capital concepts to further illuminate them. Applying this approach across forty-two countries shows ‘weak’ states exhibiting a consistent and unique patterns of relationships between community, society, and nation as well as equally consistent and unique relationships in strong states. A blend of theory and empirics, The Idea of Failed States present a new way to think about the state – one that applies to both strong and weak alike. This work should be of interest to students and scholars researching social capital, public policy, international development and security studies.
The Ideology of Failed States
The Ideology of Failed States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ideology of Failed States write by Susan L. Woodward. This book was released on 2017-04-03. The Ideology of Failed States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contests to reorganize the international system after the Cold War agree on the security threat of failed states: this book asks why.
Fixing Failed States
Fixing Failed States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fixing Failed States write by Ashraf Ghani. This book was released on 2009. Fixing Failed States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Social science.
States of Disorder
States of Disorder - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook States of Disorder write by Dan Halvorson. This book was released on 2016-04-01. States of Disorder available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. There have always been weak or ’fragile’ states in the modern era or poorly governed and disorderly political communities in earlier times. Yet the idea of state failure has only acquired such prominence in the post-Cold War period. Why would many countries in the less-developed world be considered ’failed’ states after 1990, but not in 1965 when there is little meaningful difference in their observable empirical conditions? What counts as state ’failure’ is ultimately a subjective political judgement made by the great powers of the day. This judgement is based on the sensitivity of great powers to particular types of disorder generated from the periphery in different historical periods. This book is a comparative history of the conditions under which great powers care enough about disorder from the periphery to mount costly armed interventions to reverse what they deem to be state ’failure’.
Failed States
Failed States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Failed States write by Noam Chomsky. This book was released on 2007-04-03. Failed States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The world's foremost critic of U.S. foreign policy exposes the hollow promises of democracy in American actions abroad—and at home The United States has repeatedly asserted its right to intervene against "failed states" around the globe. In this much anticipated sequel to his international bestseller Hegemony or Survival, Noam Chomsky turns the tables, charging the United States with being a "failed state," and thus a danger to its own people and the world. "Failed states" Chomsky writes, are those "that do not protect their citizens from violence and perhaps even destruction, that regard themselves as beyond the reach of domestic or international law, and that suffer from a ‘democratic deficit,' having democratic forms but with limited substance." Exploring recent U.S. foreign and domestic policies, Chomsky assesses Washington's escalation of the nuclear risk; the dangerous consequences of the occupation of Iraq; and America's self-exemption from international law. He also examines an American electoral system that frustrates genuine political alternatives, thus impeding any meaningful democracy. Forceful, lucid, and meticulously documented, Failed States offers a comprehensive analysis of a global superpower that has long claimed the right to reshape other nations while its own democratic institutions are in severe crisis, and its policies and practices have recklessly placed the world on the brink of disaster. Systematically dismantling America's claim to being the world's arbiter of democracy, Failed States is Chomsky's most focused—and urgent—critique to date.
