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...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Other Authors Harpviken, Kristian Berg
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, UK : Emerald, 2010.
SeriesComparative social research ; v. 27
Subjects
Failed states.
Failed states > Regional disparities.
National security.
Political violence.
Political stability.
Regionalism.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9780857241023
0857241028
9780857241016
085724101X
ISSN0195-6310 ;
DOI10.1108/S0195-6310(2010)27
Physical Description1 online resource (xi, 380 p.) : ill.

Cover

Table of Contents:
  • 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.

Similar Items