Troubled regions and failing states the clustering and contagion of armed conflicts /

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Harpviken, Kristian Berg
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Bingley, UK : Emerald, 2010.
• Σειρά: Comparative social research ; v. 27
• Θέματα: Failed states.; Failed states > Regional disparities.; National security.; Political violence.; Political stability.; Regionalism.; Social research & statistics.; Sociology.; Social Science > Research.; Social Science > Sociology > General.; Social Science > General.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.