Author : Milli Lake
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 36,17 MB
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 1108419372
Offers evidence that opportunity structures created by state weakness can allow NGOs to exert unparalleled influence over local human rights law and practice.
Author : Dele Olowu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 11,65 MB
Release : 2015-10-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3319206427
This book describes the contrast between the strong economic growth and democratization that have occurred in Africa and its stalling political progress. It presents and discusses fragility as the phenomenon that has caused the state to remain weak and faltering and has led to at least one third of the continent’s citizens living in fragile states. Following the examination of the drivers of fragility and the impact of fragility on citizens and neighbouring states, the book discusses capacity building approaches. This part shows how effective states can be built on the African continent, a process that would result in a change from state fragility to state resilience. It is based on lessons learnt from close studies of the nations where the state has been most developed in the region, in Eastern and Southern Africa. The book provides and responds to the most recent and up-to-date information on African development and uses insights of people who have lived and worked in the continent for most of their lives.
Author : William Reno
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 13,71 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9781555878832
Reno (political science, Florida International U.) examines alternative, usually clandestine, economic systems, arguing that such phenomena as tax evasion, illicit production, smuggling, and protection rackets have become widespread and integral to building political authority in parts of Africa. He also clarifies the limitations of the liberalizing reforms of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by detailing how weak- state and warlord political economies restrict and manipulate bank and IMF prescriptions. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Raj Bardouille
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 39,36 MB
Release : 2010-01-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1443818844
State collapse is one of the major threats to peace, stability, and economic development in sub-Saharan Africa today. In a collapsed state the regime finally wears out its ability to satisfy the demands of the various groups in society; it fails to govern or to keep the state together. The collapse is marked by the loss of control over political and economic space. A collapsed state can no longer perform its basic security and development functions and has no effective control over its territory and borders. Efforts to avoid drawing other nations into a wider conflict created by the collapse of a state—and creating favorable conditions for reconciliation and reconstruction of a failed state after it has collapsed—present major challenges. In April, 2008 the Cornell Institute for African Development called a symposium on ‘Failed and Failing States in Africa: Lessons from Darfur and Beyond’ to address these critical issues. Key contributions to the symposium are brought together in this volume. Taken together these essays represent a significant discussion on the challenges presented by the presence of failing states within Africa.
Author : Marshall R. Singer
Publisher : New York : Free Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 45,82 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Author : Joel S. Migdal
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 29,61 MB
Release : 1988-11-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691010731
Why do many Asian, African, and Latin American states have such difficulty in directing the behavior of their populations--in spite of the resources at their disposal? And why do a small number of other states succeed in such control? What effect do failing laws and social policies have on the state itself? In answering these questions, Joel Migdal takes a new look at the role of the state in the third world. Strong Societies and Weak States offers a fresh approach to the study of state-society relations and to the possibilities for economic and political reforms in the third world. In Asia, Africa, and Latin America, state institutions have established a permanent presence among the populations of even the most remote villages. A close look at the performance of these agencies, however, reveals that often they operate on principles radically different from those conceived by their founders and creators in the capital city. Migdal proposes an answer to this paradox: a model of state-society relations that highlights the state's struggle with other social organizations and a theory that explains the differing abilities of states to predominate in those struggles.
Author : Philip Roessler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 38,18 MB
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1107176077
This book models the trade-off that rulers of weak, ethnically-divided states face between coups and civil war. Drawing evidence from extensive field research in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo combined with statistical analysis of most African countries, it develops a framework to understand the causes of state failure.
Author : Robert I. Rotberg
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 29,23 MB
Release : 2004-05-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815775720
The threat of terror, which flares in Africa and Indonesia, has given the problem of failed states an unprecedented immediacy and importance. In the past, failure had a primarily humanitarian dimension, with fewer implications for peace and security. Now nation-states that fail, or may do so, pose dangers to themselves, to their neighbors, and to people around the globe: preventing their failure, and reviving those that do fail, has become a strategic as well as a moral imperative. State Failure and State Weakness in a Time of Terror develops an innovative theory of state failure that classifies and categorizes states along a continuum from weak to failed to collapsed. By understanding the mechanisms and identifying the tell-tale indicators of state failure, it is possible to develop strategies to arrest the fatal slide from weakness to collapse. This state failure paradigm is illustrated through detailed case studies of states that have failed and collapsed (the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sierra Leone, the Sudan, Somalia), states that are dangerously weak (Colombia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan), and states that are weak but safe (Fiji, Haiti, Lebanon).
Author : Mark Beissinger
Publisher : Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 21,61 MB
Release : 2002-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781930365087
The contributors not only study state breakdown but compare the consequences of post-communism with those of post-colonialism.
Author : Pierre Englebert
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 30,87 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781588261311
Englebert argues that differences in economic performance both within Africa and across the developing world can be linked to differences in historical state legitimacy.
