Engaging Failing States

Crocker, Chester A.

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“…the growth and recruitment activities of terrorist groups (Crocker 2003;Diamond 2002;Fukuyama 2004;Hamre and Sullivan 2002;Kahler 2002;Mallaby 2002;Rotberg 2002;Sanderson 2004;Takeyh and Gvosdev 2002). These authors, consequently, argue in favor of robust multi-or unilateral intervention to prevent state failure and proscribe a range of policy courses, such as: building stable democratic institutions, increasing economic assistance, multilateral military intervention, and the creation of an American empire.…”

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Incubators of Terror: Do Failed and Failing States Promote Transnational Terrorism?

Piazza

2008

International Studies Quarterly

278

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A growing body of scholars and policymakers have raised concerns that failed and failing states pose a danger to international security because they produce conditions under which transnational terrorist groups can thrive. This study devises an empirical test of this proposition, along with counter‐theories, using simple descriptive statistics and a time‐series, cross‐national negative binomial analysis of 197 countries from 1973 to 2003. It finds that states plagued by chronic state failures are statistically more likely to host terrorist groups that commit transnational attacks, have their nationals commit transnational attacks, and are more likely to be targeted by transnational terrorists themselves.

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Incubators of Terror: Do Failed and Failing States Promote Transnational Terrorism?

Piazza

2008

International Studies Quarterly

278

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“…It contributes to regional insecurity, weapons proliferation, narcotics trafficking, and terrorism. 70 Chester Crocker…”

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Piracy the Somali Way

Moylan¹

2009

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“…Another aspect of the debate on state failure deals with how to fix failed or fragile states (Helman and Ratner 1992/93;Zartman 1995;Fukuyama 2004;Krasner and Pascual 2005;Rotberg 2003;Crocker 2003). The main thesis of these studies is that, in this globalized world, there is an urgent need to fill a gap caused by an inconsistency between the de jure system of state sovereignty and the de facto nature of many post-colonial states in Africa and elsewhere.…”

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The Political Economy of State Failure: A Social Contract Approach

Ismail¹

2016

Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding

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By employing the contract approach of state theory, this article provides a conceptual framework for the analysis of state failure phenomena which puts the emphasis on structural conditions as the root cause of state fragility and state failure. The article argues that the deep social fragility of some post-colonial societies, augmented by self-serving external interventions by foreign powers, is at the heart of their failure. Deep social fragility makes societies unable to cooperate and thus renders them powerless to discipline their leaders. Meanwhile, by linking leadership survival to the decisions and policies of a self-serving foreign power, intervention provides flawed incentives to the state leaders, which increases their predatory behaviour. In such situations, state leaders, rather than strengthening formal state institutions, again intensify the collective action problem and increase social fragility as mechanisms for survival.

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Engaging Failing States

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Incubators of Terror: Do Failed and Failing States Promote Transnational Terrorism?

Incubators of Terror: Do Failed and Failing States Promote Transnational Terrorism?

Piracy the Somali Way

The Political Economy of State Failure: A Social Contract Approach

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